Music: Star-Spangler

Wall Street is used to soap-box Reds whose favorite place for haranguing the public is the curb eater-corner from J. P. Morgan & Co. Once a year Wall Street's echoes are purged of Redness by a voice whose patriotism is matched only by its volumeĀ—the voice of one Roberta Keene Tubman, leading America's Good-Will Union* in "The Star-Spangled Banner" on the steps of the Sub-Treasury where George Washington took his inaugural oath April 30, 146 years ago.

Few hours before this year's celebration. Father Washington's statue gleamed in a soft rain. City workers...

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