Word: 200th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thrust out a friendly big hand to the Justice: "Thanks, Bob!" He turned about and kissed his wife (too quickly for the photographers; he had to do it again for them). Soon after, he held a spot press conference, where he paid Cordell Hull what must have been his 200th tribute. He told the correspondents, in effect, that from now on, boys, whatever you want is yours. This was welcome news; State Department newsmen are often treated as if they carried concealed weapons...
...finished, built as the southern and last wing of the famed kite-shaped "L'Enfant plan," of which the White House is the northern wing, and the Capitol, the Washington Monument and Lincoln Memorial are the east-west line, connected by the Mall. Next week, on the 200th annivesary of Thomas Jefferson's birth, the celebrities will gather, the speeches will be read...
Next week that stirring scene and many another in the lives of the Muhlenberg (family-greatest in the history of U.S. Lutheranism-will be re-enacted at Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pa. The occasion: the 200th anniversary of the arrival in the U.S. of Henry Melchior Muhlenberg (1711-1787), sire of Washington's general and ancestor of many another famed parson, statesman and educator. He was the real founder and patriarch of the Lutheran Church in the U.S., was called Gachs-wunga-roracks by his Indian friends because "his words went through the hearts of men like a saw through...
...Boxing last week got an authoritative bible. To commemorate the 200th anniversary of Briton John Broughton's first code of the "squared circle" (later amended by the revised London Prize Ring Rules and the Marquis of Queensberry code), Broadway's dynamic little Nat Fleischer, No. 1 U.S. fistic authority, published the All-Time Ring Record Book...
...when a judge from Pennsylvania got so worked up about his marital problem that he kept bleakly describing it in uninhibited language. The Good Will Hour dates from 1937, has been piped out of WMCA to an NBC network since early this year. Last fortnight it finished its 200th performance...