The Day, Yiddish newspaper, celebrated its twentieth anniversary Sunday with the publication of a sixty-page special anniversary edition, which reviewed the twenty years of the paper’s existence.
The anniversary issue contained a special English supplement with letters of greeting from President Roosevelt and Governor Lehman and articles by statesmen and writers, including Thomas Mann, Sinclair Lewis, Booth Tarkington, Waldo Frank, Ludwig Lewisohn, Dr. Cyrus Adler and Professor Morris R. Cohen.
Secretary of State Cordell Hull and Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes also sent letters of greeting.
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