Word: 90th
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last March Justice Holmes celebrated his 90th birthday with a radio speech (TIME, March 16). Ten years ago Mrs. Holmes arranged a birthday surprise party for him, brought together for the first time all the secretaries. He was pleased. This year with Mrs. Holmes gone, a birthday dinner after the radio broadcast would have taxed his strength. The Young Fellows came a week later, went together to his house. All had joined in commissioning Artist Charles Hopkinson to paint his portrait this summer at his home at Beverly Farms, Mass. They hope to have the painting hung in the Supreme...
...your issue of March 16 under the heading "Judiciary" I was struck with admiration at the quotation from the radio broadcast by Associate Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes on the occasion of his 90th birthday. The beauty of this expression should go down in American literature along with other famous sayings by our great...
This book is published on the occasion of the 90th birthday of Mr. Holmes and is a contribution to the esteem and honor in which he is held by the peoples of the English speaking world...