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...last minute a brilliant red, yellow & blue macaw by the name of Toto slipped from his cage in the stately Georgian garden of Florist John T. Scheepers, flew into Alfred Kottmiller's Japanese garden and began furiously to gobble all the blossoms in sight. There was a brief moment of hysteria in the Wisteria; Toto was returned to his cage; a Navy band assisted by a soprano performed "The Star-Spangled Banner" and New York's Flower Show was declared open...
Largest exhibit of the main floor was the Georgian garden of Florist Scheepers. Here were pink blossoming peach trees, dogwood, lilac and tulips, a brick-lined lily pool, and on the iron trellised porch of a white brick Georgian house with peacock blue blinds, Macaw Toto in his cage. A brilliant example of the art of landscape architecture was not Mr. Scheepers' only contribution to the show. From his greenhouses came two new flowers never before exhibited in the U. S., the Sweet Glad and the Glory...
Senate Leader Watson hopefully predicted the bill would be through Congress in ten days. First the Senate must approve the conference changes in toto; then the House must sanction the flexibility change and the new lumber rate. That the President would sign the bill and try to flex out its imperfections was a firm congressional conviction...
...Schools which had hoped to adopt the new plan in toto have been unable to do so. Their efforts to solve the difficulties have resulted in a straddling process. They send all of their boys up for preliminary examinations under the old plan so that by the beginning of the senior year each one has obtained a certain number of units. If he obtains admission under the new plan, he gladly throws away these credits, regarding them, however, as valuable experiments which have robbed the coming final examinations of some of their terrors. If he is denied permission to take...
...York Times, only U. S. newsservice to carry the mammoth encyclical in toto, proudly announced that this was the longest single radio message ever transmitted from Italy (some 12.000 words), required 14½ hours of dot-and-dash work due to "unfavorable conditions," whereas "under favorable conditions an average of 1,000 words per hour can be maintained...