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...Quipped irrepressible Mayor Baker: "If Paris is just a town, I want to see one of your cities." Next morning the mayors, grumbling among themselves at the public attention Mayor Baker was getting, assembled at the Arc de Triomphe to put a wreath on the Unknown Soldier's tomb. France was startled when Mayor Baker, violating the tradition of silence at this place, made a long-winded goodwill speech. The grumblings of the other mayors grew louder as the visitors trooped to the Hotel de Ville for luncheon. Mayor Baker was accused of "hogging the show," of making...
...curtain rises on the last act of an American tragedy. On that day President Hoover and ex-President Coolidge, together with the chiefs of the Republican hierarchy, will gather beside the $800,000 marble mausoleum of Warren Gamaliel Harding for the somewhat belated dedication of the late President's tomb. The same editions carry the announcement of the day's decision by the United States Supreme Court denying ex-Secretary Fall's appeal from his prison sentence...
...bride was Mrs. Claire Skeel Baker who said: "We were originally married at Medford, Ore. in 1911 but we're glad to have it ratified in France."† After Mayor Meyer had performed the service in the Hotel de Ville, the bridal bouquet was placed on the tomb of the local Unknown Soldier...
...Berlin, Professor Alfred Lothar Wegener's widow commissioned her brother-in-law, Professor Kurt Wegener, meteorologist, who at once prepared to go to Greenland to take command of the expedition. She told him to leave her husband's body at rest in its frigid tomb...
...Franklyn R. Rees after dark had excellent authority for his ceremony (TIME, April 27). Matthew records (XXVIII-57) that the "even was come" when Joseph of Arimathaea begged the body of Jesus from Pilate, wrapped it in a clean linen cloth and laid it in his own new tomb. John records (XIX-39) that Nicodemus came to the body of Jesus ''by night" with myrrh and aloes and only thereafter was it buried in the sepulchre...