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...industry and increase unemploy-ment." Scripps-Howard statisticians in Washington broadcast to all papers in the chain doleful stories of what would happen if H. R. 2667 became law. An example : "The Grundy Tariff Bill will dog Americans' footsteps from the cradle to the grave?and after. The tomb will be no sanctuary from its depredations. Experts estimate the cost of dying will be increased more than 33%. . . . Rates on coffins . . . shrouds . . . artificial wreaths . . . candles . . . tombstones . . . are all raised...
...Other recent researches include Who Moved the Stone? (by Frank Morison, Century, 1930, $2.50), a reverent work of detective speculation upon Christ's tomb. (TIME, April...
...Rome, in the Augusteo Concert Hall built inside the ancient tomb of the Emperor Augustus, important listeners were her Majesty Queen Helena of Italy, Prince Boncompagni Ludovisi, Governor of Rome and U. S. Ambassador John Work Garrett. As it had in Paris, Zurich, Milan and Turin the press proclaimed the orchestra the greatest in existence, Toscanini the greatest of conductors...
Italy is just entering upon a six months period of honor to the memory of her greatest poet, Vergil. There will be oratory, poetry and song. There will be pilgrimages to his tomb. Classical scholars from many nations are making special trips to Italy to take part in the long celebration...
...Grasse 40 musicians of a different color. They carried no fiddles, no trumpets. They were Negro singers, members of the Hampton Institute Choir (Hampton, Va.) bound for London where they will sing under the patronage of Ambassador Charles Gates Dawes and place a wreath on the tomb of David Livingstone in memory of his services to Africans; go thence to Antwerp, Brussels, The Hague, Amsterdam, Paris, Hamburg, Cologne, Berlin, Vienna and back to Paris by way of Switzerland. Unlike many a Negro musical organization the Hampton Choir can claim distinction for its singing of classical as well as of racial...