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City Councilman Michael A. ("Mickey the Dude") Sullivan reentered Harvard's political arena last Saturday night when in his capacity as a local truckman he exported a symbolical load of sand, a large horse-shoe floral wreath, three canaries and six pigeons from the Independents, conservative political group to a dance in the Hotel Statler given by the Affiliated Jewish Youth Organization to raise money to send Jewish refugees to Palestine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sullivan Trucks Desert and Canaries for Independents | 2/21/1939 | See Source »

...played for the benefit of the players and their immediate collegiate cohorts, or is to be a spectacle staged for the entertainment of the public? The Tournament of Roses officials are now being seriously criticized for nominating Duke to play the University of Southern California in the floral classic. Apparently some feel that the public would prefer Texas Christian University to the Blue Devils. This opinion has been crystallized in the words of certain Californian sports writers, one of whom, Bill Henry, of the Los Angeles Times, says, "The Trojans apparently don't give a whoop who or what...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CIVIC FOOTBALL | 12/1/1938 | See Source »

...National Chairman John Hamilton hastened on July 4 to the tomb of Thomas Jefferson in Charlottesville, Va., bearing a floral wreath and saying: "Today the Democratic Party . . . under the domination of usurpers, pays only lip service to the immortality of Jefferson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Intimations of Grandeur | 7/11/1938 | See Source »

Eating on the air had an NBC tryout last year with three broadcasts originating in the floral centerpiece on Magazine Editor Henry Goddard Leach's dinner table. These were big, celebrity-peppered parties. CBS plans to entertain only four guests each week, to draw them from all economic levels, all shades of political opinion. "We hope with The People's Platform to demonstrate the scientific method of reaching conclusions," explained Educator Bryson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Table Talk | 7/4/1938 | See Source »

...number of Northern missionaries in Korea have sought to keep their schools open by bowing. The case for these Northerners, as reported in World Christianity by Missionary Horace Underwood. is that the ceremonies at Shinto shrines are no more religious than those in which floral offerings are placed in Lincoln Memorial or on the tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington. As Missionary Underwood described a Shinto ceremony, it involves "making a slight inclination of the head and body" when a command is given which means: "Respectful Salute!" Wrote he: "No genuflection or prostration is required." Furthermore, the Government permits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Respectful Salute! | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

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