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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington matters were different. Secretary Early turned down a request to have Imperial Potentate Dana S. Williams, of Lewiston, Me., ride up to the White House on a camel to be received by the President. Only the vanguard of potentates caught Shriner Franklin D. Roosevelt (Cypress Temple, Albany, N. Y.) at his desk, induced him to put on an honorary fez of Washington's Almas Temple. That night in a darkened limousine the President sped past the Pavilion of Omar erected on the sidewalk in front of the White House with its papier-maché sphinxes and cardboard columns...
Last week the McHenry quartet was touring New York City. They appeared at the Bronx Zoo, the Aquarium, Palisades Amusement Park, Woolworth Tower, the Normandie, N. Y. Police Department Headquarters, McAlpin Hotel and Hearn's Department Store where small, smiling Alyce was billed as "the upside-down tummy girl...
...newspapers of round, beaming Frank Ernest Gannett rarely make exciting news. Now & then the public hears that Publisher Gannett has bought another small daily like the Saratoga Springs (N. Y.) Saratogian or the Danville (Ill.) Commercial News, as he did last year; or the Utica (N. Y.) Daily Press, as he did last week. But the sum of Frank Gannett's unspectacular doings makes a story that many a publisher would like to be able to tell about himself...
Thomas L. Jacobs--appointed Instructor in Chemistry. B.A., Cornell College, Ia. '30. Candidate for Ph.D., Cornell University '35. Home: Ithaca, N. Y...
Meanwhile, across the U. S. border in Corning, N. Y., famed Corning Glass Co. cast the telescope's most important part-a 5,000-lb. mirror of Pyrex glass. The disk was 74 in. across, a foot thick. After cooling for three months, it was shipped across the Atlantic to Newcastle-on-Tyne, where Sir Howard Grubb, Parsons & Co., spent a year and a half making a polished concave surface true to the ideal paraboloid curve within two-millionths of an inch. Then it traveled back to the new observatory, where it was laboriously removed from its elaborate packing...