Word: 88th
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Associate Justice Holmes, deep-lined but erect in his 88th year, eldest of the nine...
Huge on the front page of the New York Evening Journal (Hearst), last week, was a faithful photograph of John Davison Rockefeller. Big was the caption above: 88TH BIRTHDAY PARTY, and below: "John D. Rockefeller is celebrating his eighty-eighth birthday a day ahead of time." The Journal, unlike Mr. Rockefeller, was a year behind time. As every one knows, Mr. Rockefeller was 89 on July 8. But the New York Sun jumped the gun a year and said that Mr. Rockefeller...
Died. Baron Kichachiro Okura, 91, millionaire merchant of Tokyo, in control of some 63 firms (hotels, theatres, steamships, shoe factories, breweries, etc.) in China and Japan; at Tokyo. Baron Okura spent $1,000,000 in a five day celebration on his 88th birthday; at 91 he proclaimed his longevity due to a diet of rice and eels...
...Adopted a resolution proposed by Democratic Floor Leader Finis J. Garrett, congratulating former Republican Speaker Joseph Gurney Cannon on his 88th birthday...
Lieut. Charles W. Plummer '14. (with 88th. Aero Squdron...