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...Democrats if they have a man to offer. The only Democrat who stands forth seems to be John Francis ("Red Mike") Hylan, twice Mayor before Walker. Republicans were last week actually, quite seriously considering allegiance to Hylan, whose vote-following is unquestionably larger than the outstanding Republican possibility, short, swart Representative Fiorello H. La Guardia...
...gift, a $250,000 clinic, given to Hadassah, international women's Zionist organization, is destined to serve all creeds and colors. Jerusalem's swart Arab Mayor Nashashibi spoke a few words in troubled English, thanked Donor Straus "for often having given to all people in Palestine help and comfort . . . thus creating friendship among Jerusalem's citizens." Great Britain's High Commissioner to Palestine, Sir John Robert Chancellor, spoke too, praised the Zionist movement which is in high favor in Great Britain...
Sharp eyes picked out famed newcomers: Illinois's Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick, in sheer white; New York's Mrs. Ruth Pratt next to her swart Manhattan colleague, Mr. La Guardia; Florida's Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen, resplendent in solid black with a rope of pearls; dark Oscar de Priest, the grey-wooled Negro from Illinois, far in the rear...
From India to Canada came swart, white-bearded Sir Rabindranath Tagore. From London came the British Broadcasting Co.'s Education Director J. C. Stobart. From-Czechoslovakia came interpreters of the famed-"Sokol movement" for national physical education. Fascist Italy and Imperial Japan sent representatives. So did Australia and New Zealand. No U. S. educators were officially present, although two were invited from the Adult Education Association; but their absence in no way diminished the grand manner or the importance of the meeting last week in Victoria and Vancouver of the Canadian National Council of Education...
Squiggle, loop, scratch went the fountain pen of a swart little Dictator-King Ahmed Zogu, last week, signing out the old Islamic law of Albania, signing in a new civil code based on the Swiss...