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...Ministers Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Portugal, Norway, Denmark, Uruguay, Switzerland, China, Sweden, Hungary, Finland, Guatemala, Colombia, Panama, Jugoslavia, Costa Rica, Holland, Bolivia, Esthonia, Lithuania, Irish Free State, Greece, Haiti, Honduras, Austria, Latvia, Egypt, Poland and Bulgaria; the Charges d'Affaires of Salvador, Persia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Paraguay, Nicaragua, San Domingo and Roumania; the Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee; the Secretary of State of the U. S.; the President of the U. S.; and the respective ladies-all sat down to a grand international feast from the Dolly Madison service in the state dining room of the White House...
...Hartwell Carver before the U. S. Congress. Not until 1862, however, was a practical start made on the vast stretch west of the Mississippi River. In that year, the Union Pacific began construction westward from Omaha, and simultaneously the Central Pacific began laying track eastward from San Francisco. In 1869 the two roads met and were joined at Promontory Point, Utah-thus completing steam transcontinental service...
KENNETH C. BEATON* San Francisco, Calif...
...that they were listening for the first time to the voice of Broadway talking in its sleep; they were listening to the hot-lipped, two-timing, razz-m'tazzle moan of the saxophones that chuckle and the whistles that whine in the cabarets of Charleston, Memphis, Chicago, in San Francisco roof-gardens and the honkey-tonk joints of Tia Juana; they were listening to tones as strident as peroxided hair, to rhythms that strutted like Negro girls in diamond tiaras. "The most authentic piece of music," said Carl Van Vechten, "that ever came out of America." Critics hurried...
Thirty graduates compose the membership of the Council, including, besides the officers mentioned, C. F. Adams '88, Treasurer of the University; W. C. Boyden '86, of Chicago; D. F. Davis '00, Secretary of War; B. H. Dibblee '99, of San Francisco; T. W. Lamont '92 of New York City; T. W. Slocum '90, President of the Harvard Club of New York; C. C. Stillman '98, and Eliot Wadsworth '98, former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury...