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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Grant's appointment proved so popular with U. S. Negroes that President Garfield named Douglass Recorder of Deeds of the District of Columbia in 1881, allowed him to staff his office with Negroes. Since then U. S. Presidents have failed to follow President Garfield's precedent only twice. Present incumbent is colored William J. Thompkins appointed by President Roosevelt...
...believe Her Majesty is acquainted with Mrs. Andrew Carnegie." Significantly not mentioned were Mr. & Mrs. Henry Ford, once asked by Viscountess Astor to tea at her country place on an afternoon when King George & Queen Mary also came for tea (TIME, April 23, 1928). Mr. Ford was, however, twice "commanded" to audience with Edward of Wales, as a special favor before Edward came to the throne...
Pianist Serkin scored his second Manhattan triumph three days after his second Chicago one. Later this season he will play twice more in New York. Other engagements will take him to Winnipeg, Cincinnati, Toronto, Detroit, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Milwaukee, Dallas. Next March he sails again for Europe...
...Madison Square Garden last week Hannes Schneider, now iron-haired and limping from a hip broken while skiing ten years ago, had to do no more than stand still while his skis carried him down the slide once or twice to fulfill his function as main attraction of the show whose clientele was made up mostly of skiing sophisticates. Indirect effect of Herr Schneider's three-week stay in the U. S., before going back to St. Anton for the start of the semester, was to aggravate New York's skiing neurosis to the point of mania. Owner...
Bock characterized the present overflow as the usual water epidemic of acute respiratory affections which comes once or twice every cold season...