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...Dublin Horse Show when the British Army team rides into the ring. Not to abrade further the nerves already rubbed raw by President de Valera's squabble over the land annuities (see col. 2), the British Army team withdrew last week before the show opened. There were other anthem troubles. Official anthem of the Irish Free State is a ballad entitled "The Soldier's Song," always played when the Governor General, King George's representative, enters the ring. Just before His Excellency Governor General James McNeill entered his box, Frank Aiken, Minister of Defense in President...
...from his exertions in the broad jump, won again last week with a new world's record of 51 ft., 7 in. while Sol ("Happy") Furth, U. S. hopper who crossed the U. S. twice to compete in the Olympics, finished sixth. In Tokyo, street bands played the national anthem "Kimigayo...
...following will be the Pops program at 8.30 o'clock this evening in Symphony Hall. "On the Mall" marchGoldman "Poet and Peasant" overture Suppe Austrian Anthem Hydn Sixth Hungarian Dance Brahms "Espana" rhapsody Chabrier "In the Spring", Grieg Fourth Symphony finale Tchaikovsky "Fortune Teller" selection Herbert "Volga Boatmen's Song" Arr. by Jacchia "Panaderos" dance Glazounov
Next day the Governors and their ladies journeyed to Washington to be dined at the White House. Minnesota's gay Farmer-Laborite Olson, who had waved from the Richmond rostrum to an unidentified woman as the band played the national anthem, missed the dinner. Reporters found him at the Powhatan Hotel, caught in "the press of official business...
...made the Soviet Union small Turkey's fast & firm friend. While a Red Army commander stepped forward to greet General Ismet, Tewfik talked with Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovitch Litvinov winced slightly at the too terrific blaring of the Red Army band which had burst into Turkey's national anthem: Istiklal Marsi (March of Independence).* In a Rolls-Royce the Turks were driven between two miles of cheering, flag-waving Muscovites to their lodgings in the ornate palace of Moscow's pre-Revolutionary textile tycoon, Croesus Morozov...