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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first took him to Gettysburg where he drove through cheering crowds to the battlefield. As the President ascended the platform there he was greeted by a white-haired lady of 85. Mrs. M. O. Smith, who as a girl, 71 years before, had stood on a similar platform, had sung a song to a great gathering, had heard Abraham Lincoln begin: "Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers. . . " Last week Mrs. Smith did not sing. President Roosevelt, addressing a crowd of 50,000, declared: "Here, in the presence of the spirits of those who fell on this ground, we give...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Travels, Public & Private | 6/11/1934 | See Source »

...north end of the Stadium field stood a portable altar flanked with thrones for the celebrants of the mass and surmounted by a tabernacle of rare woods, owned by the Baltimore Sisters of Mercy and said to be the one before which the first Maryland mass was sung. In the stands behind the altar sat 10,000 Catholic schoolchildren to chant the music of the mass. And on the hot, hard benches sat the rest of the 100,000. A bugler sounded "Attention"' at the Sanctus, Consecration and Communion, and two French 75's boomed on a nearby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Masses at Mass | 6/11/1934 | See Source »

...three babyfaced young women who do the singing for Betty Boop cartoons. A court anteroom was darkened and three Betty Boop cartoons and one reel of a Helen Kane picture were projected on the wall. After this, Justice McGoldrick ruled that he had had enough, demanded records and music sung by Helen Kane and Betty Boop before he made a decision. Grown fatter but still talking with the voice of an indignant doll, Helen Kane explained her difficulties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Again, Boop | 4/30/1934 | See Source »

Prescott Browning Wintersteen '34, of Uxbridge, contributed the accepted hymn, which is to be sung to the tune of "Duke Street." The words are as follows...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WINTERSTEEN COMPOSES HYMN FOR '34 CLASS DAY | 4/17/1934 | See Source »

Proceeding extemporaneously with prayers, speeches and hymns sung to the Tabernacle organ, one of the world's mightiest, the 104th Conference touched little upon secular problems. Of interest to the Latter-day Saints were reports on their church's huge investments in mines, rails and sugar beets, the extent of which they wisely keep secret...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Mormon 104th | 4/16/1934 | See Source »

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