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...next September must do exceedingly well to exceed their predecessors of 1886 in the distinction of the company and the dignity of the occasion. The record of the commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the college's founding contains an impressive list o notables. It is headed by President Grover Cleveland, who, it is said, declined an honorary degree because he did not feel that as a non-college man, he was rightly entitled...
...variance with the lyric distributed aboard the Charlie White, Tammany definitely did not turn out to greet prodigal Mr. Walker. "Fighting Al" Smith had other business. Onetime Official Greeter Grover Whalen, a decorative member of the old Walker entourage, and little Alfred Cleveland Blumenthal, Walker's Broadway companion, discreetly left town before his ship reached Quarantine. But the Master Brewers' Association, grateful for Walker's fantastic Beer Parade of 1932. was at the dock 2,000 strong. The Grand Street Boys and other sodalities with nothing to lose by consorting with the ex-Mayor had hired...
...colonnade of New York University's Hall of Fame there are niches for 150 busts. Sixty-nine of the niches are filled. Last week the 101 bigwigs who serve as Electors filled niches Nos. 70, 71 and 72 as follows: William Penn, Simon Newcomb, Grover Cleveland...
William Penn, runner-up in the 1930 election and nominee of the Pennsylvania Legislature, finally sailed through with 83 votes. Grover Cleveland got in with 77 votes, a comfortable margin over the necessary three-fifths but not enough to take second place from a dark horse, Simon Newcomb who polled 78. That distinguished U. S. mathematical astronomer was born in Nova Scotia in 1835, ran away to the U. S. when he was 18. A pushing lad, he forced himself on the attention of Harvard scientists, soon overshadowed them. The last 30 years of his life were spent building...
Greying, mustachioed, United Air Lines Pilot Grover Tyler, who landed his blazing plane in a grove of trees while flying between Seattle and.San Diego in 1931, saved his passengers with but minor injuries, managed to carry out the mail though the pouches were on fire...