Word: 200th
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next year Austria plans to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Haydn's birth but over his skull & bones a dispute has arisen. All Haydn's bones up to his head are in Eisenstadt where for years Haydn lived and worked. Eisenstadt wants to stage the major celebration but she wants also the skull, possessed now by the Vienna Society of the Friends of Music. The Vienna Friends, loth to lend it, received it from the heirs of the morbid jailer. When the authorities discovered and traced the theft ten years after it was made, the culprits procured...
Explaining why the Post Office Department could not follow its intention of issuing stamps illustrating George Washington at significant stages in his life (in connection with the 200th birthday anniversary celebration), Postmaster General Walter Folger Brown said: "The collected portraits of Washington bore too little family resemblance. One of them looked like John Jacob Raskob...
...Agreed to indite the introduction for a collected edition of the written works of George Washington, to be published in connection with the 200th anniversary of the First President's birth...
...Standing on the deck of his racing yacht Britannia, puffing cigarets in wet and squally weather His Majesty King George won his 200th and 201st yacht races last week at Cowes, Isle of Wight. It was a bad week for other yachtsmen at Cowes. Lucilla, smart 12-metre yacht, was crashed into by the big cutter Lulworth...
March 18-22-Printing exposition at Richmond, Va. Occasion: 200th anniversary of introduction of Virginia's first printing press...