Word: 65th
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Seymour. In Battell Chapel in New Haven, Conn., 1,000 guests intoned the 65th Psalm, sung in the first Yale College building in 1718. To tall Yaleman Charles Seymour, 52, Yale's Wilbur Lucius Cross, Governor of Connecticut, presented the symbols of office-the mace, the keys, the record book, the charter and the great seal of the university-in sonorous Latin pronounced him the 15th president of Yale. In Latin, President Seymour replied. This 200-year-old ritual completed, Historian Seymour mounted the pulpit, warned that "Yale must be vigilantly self-critical . . . must beware of the peril...
...Premier Leon Blum's 65th birthday, yeggs broke into the Paris office of the silk business run by his three brothers, blew the safe with an acetylene torch, stole...
...masterpiece, is the reprinted The Man Who Conquered Death. Herr Fiala, an ex-doorman at a government office, had been retired for old age, spent all his savings on a life-insurance policy. All he understood about the policy was that he had to live past his 65th birthday; otherwise his wife would get nothing. But weeks before the date he had to go to the hospital; he was dying. Though the doctors all said he had no business to be still alive, old Fiala hung on, by main strength and will power managed to last several days beyond...
Official Washington first became aware of Gus Gennerich one night in the tense days before the 1933 inauguration when Messrs. Garner, Rainey, Robinson, Harrison, Byrns and others came to confer at the house of the President-elect on East 65th Street, Manhattan. Their deliberations were interrupted by a terrible crash on the floor below, the sound of falling furniture, of breaking glass. Several conferees anxiously rushed down, found young John Roosevelt flat on the dining room floor amid several shattered family relics, found Gus grinning, dusting off his clothes, muttering, "Now, darn your little hide, I guess...
...president and an old disease awaited the American Public Health Association in New Orleans this week when that ancient and honorable organization convened for its 65th annual meeting. The new president is Dr. Thomas Parran Jr., Surgeon General of the U. S. Public Health Service. The old disease is syphilis. The conjunction of these two was of large medical importance because Surgeon General Parran is now well launched on a nationwide campaign to bring this venereal disease out into the open and under control. Today, though exact figures are lamentably lacking, it is expertly estimated that one U. S. citizen...