Word: 44th
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...objects of the maneuvers were to provide training in: 1) mobilization, 2) the "logistics of a concentration," 3) field service. Of the five divisions present the 1st (Regular) is now in process of motorization. The other four-44th New Jersey & New York, 27th New York, 43rd and 26th New England-had to depend largely on trains, although as an experiment 400 taxicabs and private trucks were hired to convey troops to the camp from Buffalo and Manhattan at a cost of $95,000. All told, there were nearly 3,000 motorcabs engaged in the maneuvers as compared...
Meanwhile in Addis Ababa sharp-nosed Power of Trinity was celebrating his 44th birthday. When the U. S. Chargé d'Affaires, William Perry George, arrived at the Palace, a large and ostensibly impromptu Ethiopian crowd suddenly produced small U. S. flags from beneath their loose garments, waved these frantically and shrilled something that was supposed to sound like "Long live America!" During the birthday reception, the Abouna Kyrillos, head of Ethiopia's Christian Coptic Church, stood with his large right foot prominently planted on the base of the Emperor's Throne. Grouped around His Majesty were...
...most extraordinary sportsmen in the world, the Aga Khan is the spiritual leader of 60,000,000 Muslems, the 44th lineal descendant of the Prophet Mohammed's Daughter Fatima, an honorary member of the Jockey Club and a member of His Majesty's Privy Council. He is so fond of pleasure that in the last five years his string of race horses, whose upkeep costs him $150,000 a year, have won nearly every important race in Europe, and become, with the possible exception of the Whitney stables in the U. S., the most valuable in the world...
Since 1875 Fifth Avenue Bank has sat, like a portly, dignified oldster, at the corner of Fifth Avenue & 44th Street, Manhattan.* When it was founded most bankers hesitated to accept women's accounts because bank lobbies were usually crowded with male customers "among whom it is not agreeable for a lady to penetrate." Fifth Avenue Bank thought differently. It built a handsome parlor where ladies could "cut coupons and eat bonbons with equal relish." Off the parlor was a room furnished with manicuring scissors, hairpins, violet water, lavender salts, scented soap. In the coupon rooms the directors thoughtfully provided...
...enlivened as usual by publication of the Bawl Street Journal, expert parody of the Wall Street Journal. Hailed by the National Board of Fire Underwriters as a sure sign of recovery was a sharp drop in the arson rate.* But the most important convention of the week was the 44th annual meeting of the American Iron & Steel Institute...