Word: 60th
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Coincident with his sailing was his 60th birthday on which uncelebrated occasion he remarked: "I have been fortunate in having success come to me, and still more fortunate in not having success chill or isolate me. A kind fate has endowed me with the combined gifts of practical qualities on the one hand, and appreciation of spiritual things, love of beauty and sympathy with my fellow beings on the other. Life is as vivid to me, the great adventure of living as thrilling, as in my early youth...
...60th Anniversary. The fire damage was trivial (old boxes, rubbish and wastes in a fireproof sub-basement). Yet it caused more excitement in Kuhn, Loeb & Co.'s marbled offices than did the celebration, the same week, ef the firm's 60th anniversary. Bankers of the neighborhood, had sent in some flowers; there were felicitations; and that was all. Kuhn, Loeb & Co. employes are trained to show no emotions. They treated the $3,000,000 of South African gold their company bought last week (the largest purchase of gold from London in several months) as a bookkeeping item. Nor did they...
...James W. Montee, 64, of Los Angeles, "oldest commercial pilot in the U. S." Not until his 60th birthday did he make his first solo flight, but for six years prior he had ridden in planes over California to point out that great state's scenic wonders to tourists. His three sons are commercial pilots, one of them having won a transcontinental race in a plane built entirely by his parent...
...Caillaux, leaving hastily after the meagre vote of confidence rushed to London. There he bargained for lenient Franco-British debt terms got them. France will pay in the current financial year about $20,000,000, with gradually increasing payments until the 60th year, when the full previously arranged $62,500,000 will be reached. M. Caillaux's cold financial heart pulsated with gratitude at Chancellor Churchill's concession of a "safeguard clause" (protection of French interests in the event Germany should default in her reparations payments...
Other societies working along the same lines include the American Association for the Prevention and Cure of Cancer (121 East 60th Street, New York City; Dr. L. Duncan Bulkley, president; Dr. Paul Luttinger, secretary-treasurer) and the Cancer Research Fund (Baltimore; Mrs. E. H. Bloodgood, treasurer...