Word: 67th
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days later Japan's precise-mannered young Emperor Hirohito. who does not like such openly greedy talk, drove in panoplied procession from his palace to the dingy, stuccoed Parliament Building. There The Son of Heaven read the proclamation opening the 67th session of the Diet, which promptly recessed. When it finally gets to business at month's end, it will presumably swallow its medicine: Japan's all-time high in defense budgets, a monster achievement of the military clique which Sadao Araki heads...
...East 67th Street was roped off and two maroon Rolls-Royces were drawn up on the sidewalk in front of the Vanderbilt house so that Mrs. Whitney, Countess Széchényi and their brigadier brother might step quickly into them. On Fifth Avenue, curious crowds watched these and 14 other limousines sweep royally downtown. Three vans bore away the flowers, some of which earned Florists Wadley & Smythe $5,000. At South Ferry on the Battery the funeral procession rolled aboard two chartered ferryboats, to bear Mrs. Vanderbilt in her bronze casket across the same body of water...
...quench an ovation is to tug at the concertmaster's sleeve, an order for the musicians to leave the stage. But though the players filed out quickly last week the audience refused to leave until Toscanini came back, shyly accepted their cheers and bravos. It was his 67th birthday and he had let the day be advertised for the sake of the Philharmonic-Symphony's campaign for money. But at speechmaking he drew the line. "I talk with my baton," he told the campaigners. In intermission while he was changing his shirt, rubbing his face with cologne...
...roared a sergeant, and up the hill went the cannon while the soldiers cheered. Later in the day, still full of energy. Il Duce took his place in the line again with chin up and swinging arms, pacing a battalion of the 67th Infantry in a route march to strain the legs of the shortest...
Last week the exclusive National Academy of Sciences acknowledged the recent contributions of western scientists by holding its 67th annual meeting in Berkeley, Calif., the Academy's first visit west of the Mississippi. Some 100 members attended sessions divided among three of California's famed research centres : University of California at Berkeley, Stanford University at Palto Alto, California Institute of Technology at Pasadena. Some points made in speeches...