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...unapproachable by contemporary trainers, these records were last week broken to bits by a 32-year-old Brooklyn pigeon fancier named Hirsch Jacobs.* At Yonkers, N. Y. last week Trainer Jacobs, who a dozen years ago did not know the difference between a pony and a Percheron, saddled his 150th winner of the current season. With ten weeks of racing left, his total should reach 175 before the year is over. This will be the fourth consecutive year that Trainer Jacobs has saddled more than 100 winners. Unlike that of Cowboy Irwin, his record was compiled at the best tracks...
...Louis Mountbatten and the King's youngest and favorite brother, the Duke of Kent, with his elegant, dashing Greek wife Marina. In a unique tribute to this pair last week newsorgans of Sydney, Australia urged that if the King can not come to the 1938 celebration of the 150th anniversary of the founding of that Commonwealth, he should send the Duke and Duchess of Kent and they should bring with them Princess Elizabeth, eldest daughter of the Duke and Duchess of York, who may some day be England's Queen Elizabeth...
...into the Yard behind her father's as he arrived for the ceremonies. An official quickly caught Mrs. Donnelly, led her out. John J. Appel of Teaneck, N. J. found in his bungalow a 15-lb. snapping turtle with "Alf Landon" painted on its back. To commemorate the 150th anniversary of Lynchburg, Va.'s city charter, the U. S. Treasury consented to issue coins bearing the likeness of Virginia Senator Carter Glass, who will thus become the second person in U. S. history so honored during life, the first so honored alone. In 1926 Calvin Coolidge shared...
...Trubee Davison, George Le Boutillier, Henry Morgenthau Sr., Henry S. Morgan, Alfred P. Sloan Jr., Walter P. Chrysler, James G. Blaine, Charles Hayden, Charles E, Hughes Jr., Harry Harkness Flagler, Thomas I. Parkinson. The company: New York World's Fair, 1939. Its purpose: to celebrate the 150th anniverary of George Washington's inauguration and the establishment of New York City as Nation's first capital...
Cheerfully he signed a resolution naming Sept. 17, 1937 as the 150th anniversary of the adoption of the Constitution and saying: "The importance of the Constitution has grown continually." Into his office trooped Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau, Governor Eccles of the Federal Reserve, Chairman Crowley of Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., President Hecht of American Bankers Association, Comptroller of the Currency O'Connor, R. F. C. Chairman Jones, Senators Fletcher and Glass, Representative Steagall to witness the signing of the Banking...