Word: 75th
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Detroit to arrange their national convention, declined an offer from Ford Motor Co. of automobiles for the use of delegates, called on Henry Ford to reject the Supreme Order of the German Eagle awarded him by Hitler's Reich last fortnight on his 75th birthday. (Same day, Mr. Ford & wife sailed on a lake freighter for a month at his Huron Mountain estate near Marquette, Mich...
Henry Ford's 75th Birthday (Sat. 11:30 a. m., NBC-Red) celebrated by 9,000 Detroit school children...
...Maytag park, have a $1,000,000, air-cooled Maytag hotel, office and opera building. Their sick are tended in a $200,000 hospital which he sponsored. Their children may attend three Iowa colleges which he aided financially. Newtonites who on Frederick Louis Maytag's 75th birthday in 1932 were working for The Maytag Co. shared a $153,000 gift from him. After he died last year, 79, rich and full of good .works, some 200 Newtonites got legacies of $1,000 to $50.000. All Maytag employes of three years' standing who missed out on the birthday largesse...
...Dedicating an "eternal flame" (natural gas) at Gettysburg, on the 75th anniversary of the battle (see p. 10) was the President's July 4 weekend assignment. As every President speaking there inevitably must do, he sought to apply Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address to the present state of the Union. Using 644 words to Lincoln's 266, Franklin Roosevelt pictured the people's Government threatened by unnamed enemies: ". . .When a challenge to constituted government is thrown down, the people must in self-defense take it up. . . . The fight must be fought through to a decision...
Ahead the Treasury did not look just yet. The net effect of the 75th Congress' whopping appropriations and authorizations will not be known until it is seen: 1) how much more money will have to be voted for Relief after next March; 2) how far Government revenues fall in fiscal 1939 due to Depression II. (The Treasury's first guess, last week, was a decline of some 750 millions.) Last week President Roosevelt ordered the Treasury to undertake a tax study for the edification of the 76th Congress. In the next twelve-month the Treasury's deficit...