Word: 50th
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cadillac, Pullman and Jim Crow coach last week, 134 Negro businessmen journeyed from 27 states to the campus of Alabama's Tuskegee Institute. They were delegates to the 50th annual convention of the National Negro Business League, founded by Booker T. Washington in 1900 to advance the cause of Negroes in business. While the businessmen naturally discussed the future, they also debated how well they had done in the past 50 years...
Salvos of artillery saluted her 50th birthday throughout the empire, but Britain's Queen Elizabeth saw in her second half-century quietly. At tea she sliced a small cake with pink and white icing, but no candles. In the evening a few close friends were invited to Sandringham to help the King toast her in champagne...
...Akron last week, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., the five sons of Harvey S. Firestone unveiled a statue of their father...
...classes are having reunions this week. The Class of 1905 is celebrating its 45th Reunion at the Brookline Country Club, and the Class of 1900 will hold a 50th reunion tomorrow at the Commander Hotel...
...Governeur P. Hance there was plenty of Christian work to do. Last week in Gibsonia, Pa. some 2,000 Episcopal churchmen and laymen, including Bishop Austin Pardue of Pittsburgh and Canon Bernard Iddings Bell of Chicago, gathered to celebrate the 50th anniversary of St. Barnabas' Free Home which during the last year fed, advised and housed 151 young boys and old men who were poor...