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...mornings the preaching team was present. In Seattle 8,000 people crowded the Civic Auditorium while 5,000 were turned away. In Chicago 30,000 attended a series of meetings in the Loop district; in Philadelphia the Mission lunched with Mayor S. Davis Wilson and city officials during a three-day visit attracting 20,000 listeners. In St. Louis the Globe-Democrat issued daily supplements detailing Mission activities and one young man declared that the team's appearance had dissuaded him from suicide. Everywhere Missionary Jones was the headline speaker, driving home repeatedly his message to the effect that...
...heard three shots some time after her husband's and son's departure. No more were heard. By last week the indignation of citizens of San Perlita was at boiling point. The men did not come home that night, or the next, or the next. They sneered at their own Sheriff William Cragg, who offered a reward of $250 for the return of the Blantons "dead or alive." Citizens gathered with arms and would have invaded the King Ranch had not Texas Rangers appeared. Captain William McMurray of the Rangers persuaded them to declare a three-day truce...
Noteworthy discussions of the three-day session...
...magazines and newspapers. Father Bongart, a mechanical engineer, teaches them drawing. Into court to testify that New Jersey teachers were better qualified than the Bongarts, marched the heads of two of the State's normal schools and West Orange's elementary education supervisor, Inez Johnson. After a three-day hearing the State rested its case and the Bongarts prepared to refute...
First proposed in 1856, the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge was not begun until May 1933. To celebrate its opening, California scheduled a three-day fiesta which officially began with speeches at the bridgehead at the Oakland end. Rabbi A. A. Stern offered prayers for the 24 men who lost their lives during construction. Herbert Hoover told how the commission he appointed in 1929 first decided that the bridge was possible. Charles Henderson, an officer of Reconstruction Finance Corp., which financed the bridge with loans of $77,600,000, represented President Roosevelt. Chief Engineer Charles Henry Purcell paid tribute...