Word: 90th
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...90th birthday last week Dr. House received nine bound volumes, each containing 90 greetings from friends all over the world. There were special messages from Governor Herbert H. Lehman of New York, Nicholas Murray Butler. Theodore Roosevelt, Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, Mrs. Thomas Edison and the presentation to the school of a 90th Birthday Fund totaling nearly $5,000. Made up of hundreds of individual contributions, each was a multiple of 90, from 90? to $90. Mrs. B. Adjemovitch, wife of the Yugoslav Consul General at Salonika, went all the way to Belgrade to bring back special wax candles...
...salesman (1886). New York Life agents celebrated his 50th anniversary with the company in 1930 by launching a three-month Buckner testimonial drive which netted $5,000,000 of life insurance each day. Last week with President Buckner's approval, the company finished a pamphlet commemorating its 90th anniversary. When Director Hoover gets his copy he will see that Thomas Buckner emphatically expects each & every director to take almost as active a part in the company's affairs as its president does...
...Missionary Society, world's second oldest religious group devoted to mariners,* found New York harbor one of the worst. Changing their name to the Seamen's Church Institute of New York, they labored to make it one of the best. Last week brought the Institute's 90th birthday. From his uptown Cathedral Bishop William Thomas Manning journeyed down to the waterfront. There in a chapel in the tall, block-long building which now houses the Institute, he pronounced his benison on its work. One shadow clouded the celebration. Last February died the "Seamen's Saint...
Olivet. Joseph H. Brewer Jr., 35, made his debut as an educator last fortnight when he became president of Olivet College (enrollment: 200) in Olivet, Mich (pop. 566). Last week he made his first presidential bow with a Founder's Day speech celebrating Olivet's 90th birthday. Son of a Grand Rapids banker, delicately dapper President Brewer took degrees a Dartmouth and Oxford, was private secretary to the late Editor John St. Lot-Strachey of the London Spectator for four years, helped found the short-lived Manhattan publishing firm of Brewer, Warren & Putnam...
Beside my desk on the wall there has hung since last March a clipping from TIME quoting Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes as saying upon the occasion of his 90th birthday: "Death plucks my ear and says 'Live-I am coming!' " Tonight's newspapers give an all too abbreviated report of his remarks upon his 91st birthday. I trust TIME will not cut his remarks severely, for they are usually so beautiful and mellow...