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...proudly supervised the laying of a cornerstone for their new store. Enclosed in the cornerstone were: a baseball autographed by Babe Ruth; a roll of ticker-tape; a horseshoe; a pair of eyeglasses; some sheet music; a telephotograph of Charles A. Lindbergh and wife; a wedding ring; several hundred flower seeds; a copy of the Congressional Record; a subway strap; some newspapers; a forecast of the future by Florenz ("Follies") Ziegfeld...
Because Ambassador Charles Gates Dawes sent nobody to break out his flag this was done by Sir Archibald Flower, Board Chairman of the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre. Tactful, he smoothed everything over by remarking that the U. S. has contributed more than any other nation to the Theatre Fund...
Spring came to Manhattan four days early when, with no little ceremony, the 17th Annual International Flower Show opened in Grand Central Palace. For the next six days nearly 200,000 people whose fate it is to live in one of the most barren cities on the continent poured in to look at gardens, beautiful gardens unlike anything that ever grew in open air, as artificial as New York itself. Here were living tulips as big as cocoanuts, roses big as lettuce heads, dogwood trees blooming six weeks before their time, orchid sprays like swarms of giant and amorous insects...
...Unrepresented at the New York International Flower Show was John Davison Rockefeller Sr. But in a flower show sponsored by the Halifax Garden Club of Daytona Beach, Fla., near his Ormond Beach winter home, he last week won two blue ribbons for a large basket of deep magenta petunias and a pot of Easter lilies, clapped his withered hands...
March 17-22-Seventeenth annual International Flower Show; at Grand Central Palace, Manhattan...