Word: 76th
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Kerwin Holmes Fulton of Outdoor Advertising, Inc., Publisher Albert John Kobler of the Daily Mirror, Banker John Edward Young, silk merchant M. C. McGill are among the residents of Manhattan's fashionable Upper East Side who keep their expensive automobiles in the Carlyle Garage on East 76th Street. One morning last week they heard that three armed thugs had held up the garage's night attendants, slashed and acid-burned 27 cars, including their own. Otto W. Peters, owner of the garage, said he had been threatened for weeks. He appealed to police and the District Attorney...
...invading Mohammedans at the siege of Malta in 1565. Later they admitted members of the European nobility into their order. Last week the Knights of Malta, still flourishing, gathered in Rome to elect a Grand Master, after forswearing "hate, fear, love and hope of gain." This Grand Master, 76th since the order was founded in the nth Century, will enjoy the status of a Prince and, as head of a sovereign order be entitled to send diplomatic representatives to foreign courts. The new Grand Master elected: Prince Ludovico Chigi-Albani della Rovere...
...Chapelizod, outside Dublin, complications of jaundice, dropsy and heart disease brought Death last week to a bearded, brilliant gentleman with a testy tongue, Timothy Michael Healy, first Governor General of the Irish Free State, in his 76th year. Three years ago failing health made him resign the Governor-Generalship. Fortnight ago his condition became critical, relatives were summoned. Tim Healy (nobody ever called him anything else) died in the night...
Awarded. Jointly to Secretary of the Treasury Andrew William Mellon on his 76th birthday (Mar. 24) and his brother Banker Richard Beatty Mellon within his 73rd birthday week (Mar. 19) : the medal of the American Institute of Chemists; for establishing and maintaining the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research in Pittsburgh and for helping create the National Institute of Health under the Treasury Department...