Word: 62nd
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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John Nance Garner had two anniversaries last week-his 62nd birthday and his 36th wedding. He observed both by going to his office before 8 a. m., working until supper time. Since his birth into a poor family on a lonely farm in the Red River County of North Texas, "Jack" Garner has come far but changed little. He is, as he likes to repeat, a man of the common people. As a youngster, he was puny. He got little or no formal education. A touch of tuberculosis sent him down to the hilly ranges of South Texas where...
...Such opportunity the American Museum, on its 62nd birthday, offers in unparalleled measure?travel, exploration, research, adventure, laboratory or book work, but always work of the hardest kind. Only those on the inside can form the faintest idea of what 'Life's fighting line' in the American Museum means. First, it means keeping yourself in sound physical and mental condition which is impossible if you yield to dissipation; second, it means dogged persistence in the face of what appear to be insuperable difficulties; third, it means that you must deny yourself many of the thousand opportunities which surround...
Harvey Williams Gushing, Harvard's great brain surgeon, celebrated his 62nd birthday last week in Toronto, by hypothesizing that stomach ulcers are caused by brain trouble...
Shockheaded, Missouri-born Bernarr Macfadden, Manhattan physical culturist and body-love publisher, with his large family of daughters and 200 health pilgrims, traveled by special train last week from Manhattan to the foot of the Castle Crags, near Redding, northern California. They reached there on Mr. Macfadden's 62nd birthday. While the pilgrims watched, dignitaries of the Redding Chamber of Commerce disclosed a bronze plaque fixed to the central peak, and unveiled a $70,000 airplane beacon (which Mr. Macfadden had paid for). The plaque designated the mountain as Macfadden Peak (TIME, July 7) "in recogni- tion...
...Deputies last week. It had previously passed the Reichstag, after which political forces were loosed which caused the German cabinet to fall. And in San Francisco last week Mr. Owen D. Young made the speech of his life, ostensibly to celebrants of the University of California's 62nd birthday, actually to the people he represented at Paris when the Young Plan was made, the people...