Word: philadelphia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cardinal Pacelli visited the U. S. "personally and privately" in autumn, 1936. The late Mrs. Nicholas Brady (later Macaulay) was his hostess at Manhasset, L. I. He lunched with the Roosevelts at Hyde Park, addressed the National Press Club in Washington, went to Philadelphia and Boston, toured by air as far west as San Francisco. First Pope in history to have personal knowledge of the U. S., Pius XII has cousins in Flushing and Jordan...
Last week the sesquicentennial was marked by two more events: 1) rich Bibliophile A. S. W. Rosenbach of Philadelphia revealed that he had obtained, for an undisclosed sum from an undisclosed source, the original draft of the Bill of Rights; 2) Massachusetts got around at last to ratifying it.* Explained Governor Saltonstall as he signed in the presence of uniformed cadets: his State's delay was due to the liberty-loving fathers of Massachusetts having sought to protect the people's rights by "even more inclusive definitions...
...color and patience of workmanship in their best pictures-two reasons why collectors short on verve but long on taste have made a safe hobby of Early Flemish masterpieces. The finest U. S. collection of Flemish primitives was formed by a lawyer, the late John Graver Johnson of Philadelphia...
Fesler wants to give his first quintet of Lutz, Legg, Peabody, Lupien, and Ruml ample opportunity to watch part of the contest with him on the sidelines. In the first meeting of the two squads in Philadelphia, the Crimson found that their offense and scoring plays worked well so the game tonight should be rated a toss...
Doing the rounds between New York Philadelphia, Boston, Buffalo, and Miami keeps her on the go all year except during the summer, Miss Southern said. She continued, "Even though I enjoy playing New York the most, I find Boston audiences the most appreciative. I think the reason for it is that in all the other cities, the better clubs have a strip act included in the floor show. I don't remember having seen anything like that...