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...tradition of knightly succor to fighting men by maintaining the St. John's Ambulance Association. For the rest, the order is now chiefly honorary. Queen Victoria graciously presented the Knights and Ladies with a royal charter, and Edward VII and George V have served successively as Sovereign Head and Patron of this Victorian revival. In consequence of such royal patronage, British warships will be required to fire an official salute upon the approach of the knightly-cruise ship, which is scheduled to leave for the Mediterranean in March...
Luis Riso Patron, of the Oficina de Limites of Chile, for a survey of the Andes, a David Livingstone medal...
...Harriman is a very generous and discerning patron of the arts. She recently organized an exhibition of French, English and American art, which she has already exhibited in London and Paris. Last week the Grand Central Art Galleries announced that the trinational show will be presented there in April...
...eastern railways of this country are preparing a series of celebrations to commemorate the 100th anniversary of steam transportation. It was on Sept. 27, 1825, that George Stephenson- patron saint of the railroad business ever since-first conducted at Darlington, England, his successful experiment. On that occasion his little "Locomotion I" painfully but steadily followed a man on horseback, pulling after it a train of cars, for 25 miles...
...served in the German Army in the early eighties?;-of what Roosevelt once said of him*?of the fact that his son, Roger Wolff Kahn, has organized a very successful jazz orchestra?of the respectful way in which the press is beginning to call him "America's Foremost Patron of tre Arts." Or he might have thought, not without satisfaction, of the banking career whose compact pattern knits these scattered salients. Formerly cashier in a bank in Carlsruhe, Germany, later Vice President of a German bank in London, he came to the U.S. during the panic of 1893, took...