Word: 75th
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Haley Fiske of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.: "I said: 'Simply great!' to describe my sensations upon finding my Manhattan home and office filled with flowers and presents for my 75th birthday, last week. Five minutes after I reached my desk (at 9:45 as usual), my secretary produced many a telegram. My reading of them was interrupted by the arrival of more flowers, which I sniffed appreciatively. Soon a delegation of our office managers trooped in, bringing me a pigskin suitcase. I thanked them and tried to resume my morning's work, when in came...
...75th year. I have been for the best part of half a century in public life. I was Prime Minister for a longer consecutive term and had to face graver responsibilities than any of my predecessors during the last hundred years. For a still longer time I have been leader of the Liberal Party...
With proper pride the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy R. R. was celebrating its 75th anniversary with a boast: "There are ten presidents of U. S. railroads who can look back at their training days with the Burlington." The advertisements might well have told off their names...
...ancient lineage, the Nordyke & Marmon Co. modestly set forth net earnings of $2,150,000. This record of the company's 75th year redounded largely to the credit of G. M. Williams, who took hold in the summer of 1924. Gross sales last year exceeded...
President Thomas Garrigue Masaryk, "Father of the Czecho-Slovak Republic," celebrated his 75th birthday and with him celebrated the entire nation, which adores him and has reason...