Word: 30th
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...world's greatest composers. On his 100th birthday this week Hamburg listened reverently to Brahms's music, placed wreaths before the bust of the hulking, bearded old man at the entrance of its famed Musikhalle. Cincinnati last week heard Brahms music played at its 30th spring festival. Boston fortnight ago had five days of Brahms. This summer the Chicago Symphony will stage a Brahms Festival for World's Fair visitors, supplementing the Brahms programs which it, along with other U. S. orchestras, gave during the winter season...
Foster son of William Hoover Yawkey, Detroit lumberman and onetime owner of the Detroit Tigers, Thomas Austin Yawkey inherited $4,000,000 from his mother, who died when he was 15. Last month, on his 30th birthday, he got almost as much from the estate of his foster father who died in 1919. To help him run his team as vice president and general manager, Owner Yawkey chose Eddie Collins, famed second baseman and coach of the Philadelphia Athletics. They planned to retain Marty McManus who managed the Red Sox ably for the last half of the 1932 season...
...Plymouth, Vt. Miss Aurora Pierce, longtime Coolidge housekeeper, heard a tap on the homestead window. Allen Brown, a neighbor, was outside. She raised the sash to hear him say: "Calvin's dead, Aurora." She sat down in the room in which the 30th President of the U. S. had taken the oath from his father at 2:47 a. m., Aug. 3, 1923, and let her tears run in silent grief...
Mourning the 30th President of the U. S. last week El National said: "Mr. Coolidge was one of the highest representatives of the human race, incorruptible, simple and disdainful of money...
...record for Walker Cup play. When Ouimet was 3 up with 8 to play against Torrance it looked as if he were sure to even matters for the 7 & 6 beating that Torrance gave him two years ago but Torrance got a 2 on the 30th and played beautiful golf to halve the match. Two other matches ? Burke v. Westland and Stout v. Sweet ser ? ended all-even after 36 holes. Rex Hartley had another chance to be bloody damnedmad after losing, 2 & 1, to Gus Moreland; so did his brother, who lost 3 & 2 to Maurice McCarthy...