Word: 200th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President flew back to Washington having obviously enjoyed himself, and went on about his business during the rest of the week with the air of a man determined to make the best of a difficult world. He reminded reporters gathered for his weekly press conference that it was his 200th formal meeting with them. He liked press conferences, he said, and though he occasionally got annoyed with their bosses, he thought most of the assembled newsmen were eminently fair...
...Schweitzer is making his first visit to the U.S. to deliver the principal address at a festival launched last week in Aspen, Colo., honoring the 200th anniversary of Goethe's birth. He had never come before, some of his friends have said, largely because of what he has -heard about U.S. publicity and ballyhoo methods. But all through his first ordeal-by-press he seemed to be having a fine time. He turned his massive head alertly from questioner to questioner, often exploding into easy laughter, several times correcting his interpreter in the translation of a phrase. He seemed...
...inhabitants had seldom had such a busy week. Every time the daily "Virginia Creeper" crept into the station, it spilled out more notables onto the platform. They included some 90 deans and presidents from colleges all over the U.S., come to help celebrate the 200th birthday of Washington and Lee University...
Down through the years, from the Constitutional Convention to the Dixiecrat revolt, the Gazette has told the news with a Southern accent. Last week, in a 132-page anniversary issue, the oldest U.S. daily newspaper marked Alexandria's 200th birthday and looked back over its own 166 years...
...tinted somewhat too vividly, gazed steadily out over the throngs. Around the balcony hung other photographs: the Dewey family playing with their Great Dane; the Dewey family at the circus; Dewey on the farm. Dewey infantrymen passed out soft drinks and small favors to gawking visitors and gave every 200th visitor a door prize. William Horne, a Philadelphia bank employee, was clocked in as the 45,000th visitor and got a sterling silver carving...