By automobile and airplane, by train and on foot, some 12,500 Rotarians arrived in Minneapolis last week to attend the 19th annual convention of Rotary International. Rotarians from Czechoslovakia or other strange places were welcomed in their own tongue by means of painted placards whose wording was the result of much Minneapolis scholarship. Four and a half thousand autos were used to carry the Rotarians about the city; 80 typists copied registration lists so that no Rotarian might remain unnoticed. Before long all the Rotarians gathered in the municipal auditorium, second largest in...
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