Word: 85th
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Silver-haired, sharp-tongued, zealous Dr. Charles Giffin Pease, founder of the Non-Smokers' Protective League (he used to snatch cigars from the lips of subway smokers), celebrated his 85th birthday in his usual fashion, delivering a good-natured diatribe to newshawks against whiskey, wine, beer, capital punishment, the killing of animals, the eating of flesh. Said he: "The dear chickens, how they scream and struggle in their effort to break away from the hands of the assassin. If it were right to kill chickens there would be no expression of fear on the part of the chicken...
...Return to Law." Next day, and the day of Franklin Roosevelt's trip to the Capitol, was his mother's 85th birthday. "I don't think my son has the slightest wish [for a third term]," said she at Hyde Park. Her son in Washington was guarded almost as though the U. S. were at war. Ringing him, barricading the approaches to the House chamber where he was to speak, were 150 Washington police, extra Secret Service details, 150 Capitol guards. They policed even the press galleries, stopped Attorney General Frank Murphy when he brushed past. Conspicuously...
Aging Prophet Herbert George Wells, 72, published in England his 85th book, The Fate of Homo Sapiens. He contended that it is "still just possible" that democratic brainwork may avert Man's fate; otherwise mankind, "which began in a cave, will end in the disease-soaked ruins of a slum...
...Kracke's lecture on the new disease and his exhibit of drugs which cause it was one of the most exciting incidents at Cleveland last week, where the American Medical Association conducted its 85th convention. Other newsworthy presentations included...
...baby yak born in the Bronx Zoo was christened "General Hughjo" in honor of NRA's General Hugh Samuel Johnson On his 85th birthday, August Heckscher, Manhattan capitalist, charitarian, motored out to the Peekskill camp where he entertains 300 poor children every summer. There he listened to a little girl's speech of congratulations, read a telegram from his friend Franklin Delano Roosevelt, drank three glasses of stout. News photographers had his enormous birthday cake brought outdoors, snapped him plunging a knife into it. Wearied by the noise and excitement, Charitarian Heckscher wandered down to the swimming pool...