Word: birthday
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Birthday. The 40's are mature, the 50's dignified, the 60's distin- guished, the 70's venerable. Last week the only living U. S. citizen besides Calvin Coolidge who has been President of the U. S., reached his 70's-Chief Justice William Howard Taft of the U. S. Supreme Court, happy, healthy, at his summer home on Murray Bay, Quebec...
...function that Mrs. Coolidge had attended. That she chose to make her debut at a meeting of the Fortnightly Club was due, not to her favoritism, but to the fact that the members of this club had been the first courageous enough to invite her. ¶On the 21st birthday of John Coolidge, the President stayed away from the Executive Office in Rapid City in order to celebrate the occasion. No birthday presents were in evidence, so newsgatherers stated that the President had given his son a large check. Also it was said that John Coolidge, on becoming a major...
...jumped from $25,000 to $150,000 and a percentage, in one year. "God has been good to that man," said Mr. Flint. Chicagoans recalled that last month their townsman, Julius Rosenwald, chairman of Sears, Roe- buck & Co., 115-millionaire, issued a statement on the occasion of his 65th birthday. Mr. Rosenwald said: "I was lucky, not a genius. With rare exceptions, the man who accumulates wealth displays no more genius than the prize-winner in any lottery. It is by luck that a man gets hold of a good thing at the right time and more by luck that...
...overpaid! I'd like to go back to railroading it; it is the most fascinating business in the world. Senators' vacations are too long! We waste too much time!" So said James Couzens, U. S. Senator from Michigan, interviewed last week during his 55th birthday. One-time freight-car checker, onetime Ford vice president, Senator Couzens is reputed to be the richest member of the U, S. Senate...
...have been together 50 years," said a voice. "Fifty years of invention and achievement. We have shared defeat and success, discouragement and triumph. You have in that time made me a universal messenger of happiness and education to rich and poor. This is my 50th birthday and I have a favor to ask. I want to hear again from your own lips those immortal phrases which you spoke to me half a century ago." So another voice replied: Mary had a little lamb, Its fleece was white as snow, And everywhere that Mary went The lamb was sure...