Word: 74th
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Secretary Mellon celebrated his 74th birthday last week by calling on his friend President Coolidge. Birthday festivities consisted of a handshake, laconic felicitations, a long conference on the tax-reduction situation. Leaving the White House, Secretary Mellon declined to divulge what he and the President had decided was to be the Treasury's specific recommendation to the Senate Finance Committee when the latter begins hearings on the House's tax bill next week. He said only that tax payments in the first quarter of 1928 seemed so far to justify the Treasury's original estimates...
...busy-buzzing Detroit, 1,500 members of the American Chemical Society attended its 74th annual meeting...
Henri Marcel, waveman: "This month I celebrate, at my estate in the department of Eure, my 74th birthday. Paris papers told how, at 12, I was a stonemason, how I learned" the barber trade because chiseling tired me, how I shaved for two francs and curled for three until one day, in my shop in a slum, a demirep said to me: 'Make my hair curl like the locks extraordinary of your mother.' I was at that time supporting my good maman; her hair was famous in the neighborhood, beautiful auburn hair that nature had twined round...
...Alexander of 167 East 74th Street, Manhattan, gave a party. The oldest of her guests was 13 and the youngest two were five. Mrs. Alexander is the mother-in-law of Theodore Roosevelt Jr. Her guests were: Grace, 13; Theodore, III, 10; Cornelius, 9; Quentin, 5 (children of Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.); Edith, 9 (daughter of Ethel Roosevelt Derby); Kermit, Jr., 9; Willard, 7; Clochet, 5 (children of Kermit Roosevelt...
Today, in his 74th year, he is regarded by many as easily the most distinguished soldier of France, bar none...