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...Last week Governor Gore flew to Puerto Rico to take up his duties and announce a New Deal. As his airplane approached San Juan, he seized a microphone, broadcast a plea to Puerto Ricans for cooperation. Despite a downpour of rain there was a crowd waiting to welcome him, escort him to the ancient fort which is the Governor's mansion. His first public act was to attend mass in the cathedral. To Puerto Ricans this was an auspicious start. Then he repaired to the capitol for his inaugural address. Unlike Governor Theodore Roosevelt he learned no Spanish, gave...
...Victoria Station last week, and in full uniform King George. Edward of Wales, the Duke of Gloucester and most of the Cabinet in levee dress stood on it waiting for a train. The train pulled in, and out stepped white-chinned King Feisal of Irak, who had been escorted across the Channel by four British destroyers, met at Dover by the Duke of York. Reporters admired his gleaming white tunic and his golden spurs. Guns banged a royal salute, and Kings, Cabinet Ministers and assorted princes rode down Buckingham Palace Road with a clattering cavalry escort. The welcome...
Boston streets were lined with cheering throngs (it was Bunker Hill holiday) as Franklin Roosevelt and his eldest son motored through the streets accompanied by motorcycles and a mounted escort. Followed by Governor Ely of Massachusetts, they drove through Concord to Groton. Too late to see his wife (who had been there the day before but sped off to New York on her own rapid itinerary), the President stopped in his car before the house of Mrs. William F. Horton to greet his benign, white-haired mother who was staying there, then drove on half a mile to the school...
...officers of Edinburgh ceremoniously gave him keys to the city (which by custom he handed back at once). Day the Assembly opened, he drove first to St. Giles's Cathedral and then to Assembly Hall, with his wife, purse-bearer, aides-de-camp, ladies-in-waiting and cavalry escort. Cannon thundered a royal salute. The Lord High Commissioner read a letter of commendation from the King. Thereafter he visited the Assembly daily, spent some of his ?2,000 on garden parties and other functions for the delegates...
...exception: James McNeill Whistler's famed Portrait of My Mother, valued at $1,000,000, France's one contribution to the Fair, lent by the Louvre through Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. When it arrives in Chicago next week, U. S. troops will escort it from Union Station to the Institute...