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...Blenheim, Britain's sift in 1704 to the great first Duke, the Marlboroughs pay annual rent to George V of a banner emblazoned with three "flower-de-luces" (fleur...
...Samuel Seabury who drove one Tammany mayor into voluntary exile, would have none of General O'Ryan. Last week after weeks of bickering the Fusionists finally agreed on a candidate for the nation's No. 3 elective office. No neophyte in Manhattan's politics, Fiorello (Little Flower) Henry La Guardia was President of the Board of Aldermen 13 years ago, was the fiery little Republican candidate whom Mayor James John ("Jimmy") Walker defeated in 1929. But in the campaign he charged Tammany with most of the honeyfuggling which Samuel Seabury later proved in his famed probe. Last...
...adopted by magazine & periodical publishers. The code was drafted by a Periodical Publishers Institute formed in Manhattan to represent 6,800 publications of assorted sizes and hues- most of which are losing money. Prime problem: to gear a standard procedure to all publications, from the Satevepost to the Little Flower Monastery Messenger. Prime provisions (subject to amendment by NRA): 1) The Institute, headed by Stanley R. Latshaw of Butterick Co., "shall establish definite regulations . . . to prevent publication of misleading and/ or untruthful advertising." 2) "Circulation records . . . shall be open for inspection by advertisers . . . and all reasonable auditable information which they...
Topeka, capital of Kansas, takes its pets seriously. Last spring its flower-lovers, incensed by damage to their gardens, began to petition the city commissioners for an ordinance restraining dogs from running loose in the city. Dog-lovers rose in hot defense. Caught between the two camps and facing an imminent city election, the commissioners sidestepped. They put the dog-flower issue on the ballot. Topekans promptly got so interested in the resulting wrangle that candidates for city offices were almost forgotten. The election went to the dogs...
...Jorgenson, C. Francis Ladd, Doris Benson, John E. Bird, Barbara Evers, R. A. Benson, Jr., Reed E. Bartlett, Charles W. Perry, Sidney Gleason, 2nd, Ruth Hussey, W. A. Frances, Mary Ettling, Evelyn Hassman, T. Gordan Bingham, Jr., Dorothy Hughes, F. F. Silver, Robert Schafer, Natalie Peterson, Alber Flower, Jr., Mina Flower, Beechman, L. Fairbank, Margaret Page, Dorothea MacMillen, H. Myron, Jr., G. S. Worcester, N. Shipman, Jay Ricks, Miss J. White...