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Only since 1863 has Thanksgiving had a consistent year-to-year day, but football coaches were furious: 30% of them had games scheduled Nov. 30 which would now play to ordinary weekday crowds. Calendar-makers took the blow quietly except for Elliott-Greer Stationery Co. of Amarillo, Tex., which happily discovered it had designated Nov. 23 as Thanksgiving Day by mistake. Alf Landon sounded off in Colorado as follows: ". . . Another illustration of the confusion which his impulsiveness has caused so frequently during his administration. If the change has any merit at all, more time should have been taken in working...
...real name is André Isaac. He is a singer, an actor sometimes at the Deux Anes (Two Asses) theatre, author and editor of the funpaper L'Os à Moelle (Marrowbone). Each weekday at 13 h. 5 ( 1:05 p. m.) for the last year he has sent Parisians by the hundreds rummaging high & low for varying collections of oddments, to be produced within two hours at a designated rendezvous. An open street is usually necessary for the arriving candidates and their equipages. This was evident from the start, when the first after noon hundreds of participants piled into...
Last week at Inglewood, 25 minutes from Hollywood, the new track opened. In spite of petitions by churches and reform groups, a weekday crowd of 40,000 streamed into elegant Hollywood Park, wagered $512,000 on eight races...
Shocked, Dean Noe said nothing as he accepted the bishop's verdict. The dean had been unable to go to a diocesan convention in Knoxville because, at the last minute, Mrs. Noe took ill, collapsed. Because of that convention, no weekday services were held in the Cathedral, and for the first time ousted Dean Noe went for a week without the communion bread & wine which had previously solaced, and partially nourished, him. Some 30 members of the parish were reported anxious to join him in his fast, but he attempted to discourage them. At week...
...Mother Bethel Church the first weekday, Sunday and night schools for Negroes were opened. Bishop Allen founded the first U. S. Negro publishing house, whence was issued in 1852 the Christian Recorder, oldest continuous Negro periodical. In 1830 U. S. Negroes met at Mother Bethel Church in their first national convention. By the time Bishop Allen died in 1831, he was worth $30,000 and his devoted followers buried him in the churchyard. Later, his tomb was incorporated in the basement of a new church, making it a shrine near which today is a Memorial Museum containing such relics...