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Dedicating the clinic on the feast of the Passover was typical of Straus donations. Philanthropist Straus likes to commemorate festivals by gifts. On his 80th birthday last year (Jan. 31) he sent $100,000 to Jerusalem's Zionist leaders. His name is inevitably associated with milk. He has established milk stations throughout the U. S., conducted pasteurization campaigns in the U. S., Palestine, Great Britain, France...
...chanted the assembled guests and banged till the glasses rattled. It was the 80th birthday, last week, of Grand Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz, Wartime commander of Germany's Navy, until 1916. The little mountain inn at Feldafing, Bavaria, on the shores of the Wurm See was crowded with Prussian Generals and Bavarian Princes. Perspiring waiters, imported from Munich, rushed to and from the kitchen bearing caviar, Rhine salmon, venison−in all 50 mountainous courses of food for the distinguished guests...
...present Duke of Wellington celebrated in his Piccadilly home, last week, his 80th birthday. As a grandson of the "Iron Duke" he holds the highest foreign titles possessed by any British peer, is the Netherlandic Prince of Waterloo and a Portuguese Knight of the Grand Cross of the Tower and Sword, and ranks in Spain as a Grandee of the First Class. His 19,200 English acres bring him far more in revenue, of course, than the 99 year-old tribute of little Belgium...
...Twelfth Avenues and commonly, because of accidents, called "Death Avenue." Ramps to the superstructure will occur at 22nd, 44th and 57th Streets. The whole will cost some $13,500,000 (graft excluded). One boom in Manhattan riverside real estate has already occurred recently, on the Harlem River bank around 80th Street, under the leadership of Vincent Astor. The new concourse was expected to carry the boom from east side to west side, all around the town...
...Federation of Arts, of the Survey Associates, of the National Housing Association, of the Charity Organization Society. The New York Times called him "Captain of Philanthropy" and the New York Sun called him "First Citizen of the First City of the Land." It was Mr. de Forest's 80th birthday...