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Manhattan took just as warmly to Alemán as Washington, but its weather was bad. A misty rain fell. Bareheaded, Alemán smiled through hours of parading up & down the island in an open car. Wall Street gave him a soggy version of its traditional ticker-tape ovation; Mexicans, in native costumes, lined the streets. At City Hall, he was made an honorary citizen. At Columbia University, he received an honorary LL.D...
...salute. President Aleman would address a joint session of the Congress, stay at least one night at the White House, travel to Mount Vernon on the presidential yacht Williams burg, and use the presidential Pullman for a trip to New York (which also planned an oldtime, ticker-tape reception...
...position and the new friendliness between his nation and the U.S. He will sleep in the White House, be honor guest at a state dinner. He will address a joint session of Congress. In New York City, before swinging south for an inspection of TVA, he will get a ticker-tape reception, dine with government, financial and business bigwigs at the Waldorf-Astoria. But President Aléman, the first Mexican President to visit the U.S. capital, is headed for Washington and New York on more than white-tie business. His Government, only five months in office, wants U.S. money...
Died. Kenneth Craven Hogate, 49, hefty Hoosier publisher of the Wall Street Journal, president of Barren's Publishing Co., chairman of Dow, Jones & Co., Inc. (financial ticker service), close friend and 1944 presidential campaign adviser of Thomas E. Dewey; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Palm Springs, Calif...
...shivering beside wirelesses to hear the 7 a.m. news report of the Battle of Adelaide. A blue-faced cabby with frosted eyebrows said to a chum: "We didn't ought to have sent them." In a swank Pall Mall club, an elderly gentle man turned from the ticker mumbling: "Damn bad luck." All England knew and feared the name of Australia's great batsman, a wiry stockbroker, Don Bradman. With his help, last week, the Australian eleven held the British to a draw. The Australians had already won two and tied one, so (though there was a fifth...