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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During his first week in Dublin Minister McDowell read that some 15% of the winners in the great Irish Sweepstakes drawing for the Grand National Steeplechase were U. S. residents. He found time to watch a drawing from the huge yellow mixing drum under a wall-long panel of racing thoroughbreds, the nurses from the hospitals the Sweepstakes subsidizes pouring bags of counterfoils into the drum...
...view of getting 5,000 full francs' worth of song, the Academy stipulated that the winning hymn must last from twelve to 15 minutes and be scored for four to eight mixed voices and a full orchestra. This remarkable paean will be sung in June at the Grand Festival of Bordeaux before no less a connoisseur than President Albert Lebrun...
...panels and lists of people whose names were not divulged. French agents announced that the real head of the Ring was one Violette Levine, a U. S. schoolteacher. But the shy Violette could not be found. Seven more people were arrested for espionage last week, including a Col. Dumoulin, Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor, accused of selling documents stolen from the War College, and Camille André, a onetime stockbroker who attempted to peddle naval plans which neither the British nor Japanese consulates in Marseilles needed. Announced the Sûreté Générale: "Police...
...hencoop, which was a theory of the pre-existence of souls. Mary Foote Beecher (Mrs. Thomas C. Perkins, grandmother of Author Charlotte Perkins Gilman) was the only purely private Beecher. Since she wanted to do something, she resolved to live to be 100. Writes Author Stowe of his Grand-Aunt Mary: "I remember when the old lady was in training for this century run, one was allowed to talk with her only for five minutes. Her attendant watched the clock." Born in 1805, Mrs. Perkins undershot her goal by five years. Harriet Beecher (1811-96) married Professor Calvin Stowe. upon...
...Great Mother of the Gods). At her right is Pomona (Goddess of Fruit Trees), at her left, Ceres (Mother Earth). Flora, Goddess of Flowers, dreams while Pan flutes. There are also a grandfather who explains the gods, some reapers and sheep. Thomas Gilbert White, born 56 years ago in Grand Haven, Mich., has spent most of his life in Paris. A long-haired eccentric boulevardier, he paints with intense seriousness. He has done murals for the New Haven County Court House, Manhattan's Hotel McAlpin, the State Capitol at Oklahoma City. He painted his mural for the Department...