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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York State's greatest Democratic politicians, Grover Cleveland, was married to Frances Folsom (now Mrs. Preston) in the White House. Grover got his start in politics when he was 30 by working for the election of John F. ("Red Mike") Hylan, Tammany's candidate to succeed the previous Fusion mayor, John Purroy Mitchell. Soon Whalen blossomed out as commissioner of plant & structures and holder of various other city offices. The one which made his reputation was secretary of Mayor Hylan's committee to welcome home coming troops after the War. He soon became the city...
...Mary the Virgin's Church in Oxford last Sunday, His Grace the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury did something no Primate of England had ever done before, something that the Archbishop had frostily disapproved when upon previous occasions it had been done, or proposed, by lesser Anglican churchmen. Dr. Cosmo Gordon Lang celebrated Communion at St. Mary's altar for anyone-Orthodox Russian, Swedish Lutheran, U. S. Baptist or African Methodist-who cared to partake. And many a non-Anglican from all parts of the world did partake, for this friendly gesture, coming from one ordinarily so strict...
...prefabricated Americana. It aims to be and is a complete prevarication, impaired only by the fact that Edward Arnold's jowled jollities are indistinguishable from the ones which the U. S. screen's No. 1 specialist in 19th Century captains of finance has used in all his previous portrayals. Good shot: Fisk, Boyd and the Ninth Regiment routing a gang hired by Vanderbilt by turning a hose on them...
...Reporting for the twelvemonth through June, big Public Service Corp. of New Jersey showed earnings of $25,377,000 compared to $23,020,000 in the previous fiscal year...
...report last week, U. S. cotton textile mills had absorbed 7,361,700 bales of the South's great cash crop, thereby establishing in eleven months an all-time record for domestic consumption during the twelve-month cotton year from August i to August i. Best previous year: 1926-27, with 7,189,585 bales...