Word: 56th
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...182The President celebrated his 56th birthday one day early with a dinner for the "Cuff Link Club"-Roosevelt intimates who have been awarded gold cuff links for faithful service.* On the night of the President's Birthday Balls-to raise funds for the infantile paralysis campaign-he broadcast a personal message but attended none of the seven balls given in Washington. Up to this year the Birthday Balls have been run by old Henry L. Doherty, president of Cities Service Co., one of the most pyramided holding companies ever devised. This year the President apparently realized the paradox...
Thus last week did Rev. Dr. Charles Jefferson, 75, high-minded honorary minister of Manhattan's Broadway Tabernacle, address the 56th annual General Conference for Christian Workers at East Northfield, Mass. To his 4,000 listeners in the largest of the gatherings of ministers, students and missionaries which every summer brings to East Northfield, Dr. Jefferson's words almost seemed designated ko echo a Northfieldite who did do mighty work: Dwight Lyman Moody, doughty founder of the General Conference...
...Rouge (65 E. 56th St.). Luminous glass wall murals, showing aeroplane night views of New York City. Irvin Gilbert's music...
Leon and Eddie's (33 W. 56th St.) offers a riotous time with the hottest show in town. Always a young crowd...
Died. Brigadier General Jacob F. ("Jake") Wolters. 64, general counsel and chief lobbyist of Texas Co., onetime commander of the 56th Cavalry Brigade (Texas National Guard), longtime administrator of martial law in Texas; of a heart ailment; in Austin. Because of a political feud with Governor James V. Allred ("The first thing I'll do is bust 'General Jake' to a buck private in the rear ranks'"). Wolters retired last year just before Allred was inaugurated...