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John Davison joined early but never attends meetings. He has sent busses to convey one district of R. F. A. membership to a picnic on his Pocantico Hills estate, absenting himself the while. Last year, when twelve persons qualified for a badge signifying 25 years of membership, John Davison, who has paid his dues several years in advance, was sent a special Rockefeller coat-of-arms (leaves, rocks, horns of plenty quartered) signifying the sole life-membership...
...Association has prospered, has had to be divided into nine districts across the land. Each year each district holds a picnic; each year the national organization holds a dinner in a Manhattan hotel. These are not apt to be attended by such members as Mrs. Edith Rockefeller McCormick, Mrs. David Hunter McAlpin or Percy Avery Rockefeller. More likely to be present are Professor William Henry A. Rockefeller, music teacher of Newark, N. J.; Albert Rockefeller, 45, operator of the Boston Shoe Repair Shop on Academy st., Poughkeepsie, N. Y.; Traveling Auditor George C. Rockefeller of United Engineers & Constructors...
This summer the City of Centralia in the State of Washington will hold its 20th annual Southwest Washington Pioneer Picnic. Last week the City of Centralia took steps to insure that this Pioneer Picnic shall be the real thing. A special city ordinance was passed: every man in town must let his whiskers grow from July...
...dead. Consider a strike against all extra-curricular activities with the baseball season nearing its culmination and outdoor theatricals and Commencement festivities approaching! The blood in the snow at Valley Forge becomes pale pink by comparison, and Gandhi's non-resistance movement in India appears like a Sunday school picnic. Owen D. Young to the rescue! Let not this threatened sacrifice of our dauntless young heroes become a grisly reality! The Nation...
...grave as a charge on the national budget. This "charity" Mme Bratianu indignantly refused, replied to the Cabinet: "I will pay for my husband's funeral." Delighted, the peasant politicians ordered the special trains, came to the funeral of their late enemy as to a picnic...