Word: 21st
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Alton, Ill.'s Robert Wadlow, tallest man in medical history (TIME, March 9, 1936), celebrated his 21st birthday by giving out interviews, going to a party some friends gave in his honor at Masonic Temple. He is still healthy, still putting on weight, still growing (three-fourths of an inch, eleven pounds in the last six months). Present height: 8 ft. 8½ in. Weight: 491 Ib. When he quits growing, his family plans to build him a "dream house," with ceilings "at least twelve feet high...
...round-trip to Montreal is sixteen dollars, with $2.65 extra for a lower berth and $2.00 for an upper. The H.A.A. trip allows you to leave here the 17th, 18th, 19th or 20th and return on the 22nd. The hockey team is playing Montreal in Montreal on Tuesday, the 21st, and is scheduled to meet McGill at Toronto the following night...
...among U. S. Episcopalians, help found the Church Pension Fund. Treasurer of this organization today is J. P. Morgan, although the man who really runs it is dapper, twinkling, argumentative Bradford B. Locke of Princeton, its able executive vice president. Last week the Church Pension Fund held its 21st annual meeting in Manhattan, heard from its President William Fellowes Morgan that its assets now stand at a fat $33,000,000. A new problem, however, faced the Fund-the possibility that the Social Security Act may soon be amended to include non-profit organizations, thus piling a 3% tax upon...
With continued Soviet assistance vital to China's resistance, Chungking, the official capital, last week commemorated the 21st anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution on a scale not usually given to foreign celebrations. Newspapers featured side-by-side portraits of the Generalissimo, Stalin, Dr. Sun Yat-sen and Lenin. At a mass meeting, Dr. Sun Fo, president of the Chinese Legislative Council, declared that China's only "true and real friend" was Russia. Premier Dr. H. H. Kung praised the achievements of the Russian Revolution, then berated the Chinese for not having sacrificed enough for victory...
...pedaled the policy known as "The World Revolution Of The World Proletariat," have loud-pedaled the policy known as "The Popular Front." Last week in Moscow, highest Soviet dignitaries and cheering mobs used the Red Square as a gigantic sounding board to loud-pedal World Revolution. Occasion was the 21st anniversary of The Bolshevik Revolution...