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...Estensi were one of the proudest and most ancient reigning houses in Italy. In Leonardo's time, besides the heir Alphonso, whom Lucrezia Borgia married after she had had her third husband murdered, there were two d'Este daughters, Isabella and Beatrice. Leonardo was working at the splendid court of Ludovico Sforza, later duke of Milan, when his patron married Beatrice, younger and more beautiful of the two. Between her marriage at 16 and her death in childbirth at 22, Leonardo saw much of her and painted two of her husband's mistresses. Two years after...
...session. Five thousand freshly-scrubbed schoolchildren were first to perform. And eager to follow were the singers from Ferndale, the many local Ukrainians, Scots, Scandinavians, Slavs. Choir singers were Catholics, Presbyterians, Methodists, Baptists. More than forty organizations and 17 nationalities were to be richly represented. But Detroiters were proudest of the workmen who stood for their city's No. 1 industry-the men who make automobiles for Chrysler, Hudson and General Motors...
Fargo, N. Dak., made the proudest showing of any outside city. Fargo is the home of Mrs. John Alexander Jardine, the Federation's eager, grey-haired president. Fargo and its twin-city, Moorhead, Minn., contributed the week's lustiest singing. At Mrs. Jardine's suggestion the Amphion Chorus of 93 men traveled East. They represented 21 trades and professions, ranging from barbers and buttermakers to doctors and lawyers...
...Proudest Negro job in the world is the presidency of the institute which the late great Booker Taliaferro Washington founded at Tuskegee, Ala. in 1881. Tuskegee's two leaders, Dr. Washington and Dr. Robert Russa Moton, who succeeded him two decades ago, have done much to set the course of Negro education and culture in the U. S. They have had the friendly ear of tycoons, statesmen, a dozen Presidents. Again & again the heads of Tuskegee have spoken for their race...
...Representative "Ham" Fish, whose proudest boast is that he "hasn't missed a Harvard-Yale football game since 1905," has lately been specializing on the South where Negro delegates to the Republican convention are to be had for a price. Last fortnight disgruntled Southern Democrats had a chance to look Republican Fish over at swank Aiken, S. C. Last week he spoke by radio over a Southern hookup, inviting all those who were "deceived and disgusted" with their national Administration to "cross over" to Candidate Fish...