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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Every patriot knows that the U. S. flag should never touch ground or trail in water. In Newark, N. J. superpatriotic Scoutmaster Stephen F. Walker of Boy Scout Troop No. 77 shuddered last year when two aluminum reproductions of the great seal of the U. S. were embedded in the floor of Newark's Post Office Building, where heedless visitors trod on them. Scoutmaster Walker protested to the postmaster, to Postmaster General Farley, to Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau, to the President of the U. S. Then he enrolled other superpatriots in his crusade, marched in a cordon...
Between a teacher and a politician, declared Oklahoma's Senator Josh Lee in addressing a teachers' conference at Albany, N. Y. last week, there is this difference: A teacher makes his bed and lies in it; a politician makes his bunk and lies...
Appointed "social ambassadress-at-large" for San Francisco's 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition was Manhattan café society's clown, Elsa Maxwell. Irked, the N. Y. Daily News's World's Fair-conscious "Nancy Randolph" (real name: Frances Kilkenny) wrote: ". . . To-day this column intends to whack Grover Whalen hard for letting the rival San Francisco Exposition grab that peerless partygiver and fun-maker, Elsa Maxwell. Of course, Grover Whalen has Mrs. Astor . . . but she doesn't like publicity...
Last week in Manhattan, at the 17th Annual Congress of Anesthetists new, safe drugs for relief of labor pains were enthusiastically discussed by Drs. S. Le Roy Sahler, chief of anesthesia in the Rochester, N. Y. General Hospital, Peter Graffagnino, head of the gynecology department of Louisiana State University Medical Center in New Orleans, and Louis Wralter Seyler of Commerce, Texas...
Married. Gregory Mangin, 31, four times (1932, 1933, 1935, 1936) U. S. indoor amateur singles tennis champion; and Clayton Sayre Sullivan, 20-year-old Charlotte socialite; in Charlotte, N...