Word: birthday
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Secretaries Marvin Mclntyre and Stephen Early, Thomas Lynch, Appraiser of the Port of New York, Stanley Prenosil, a Manhattan businessman and Kirke Simpson of the Associated Press, held private revel in the White House. So far as most of the U. S. was concerned, the President's real birthday party was divided into some 7,000 parts, scattered in some 5,000 U. S. cities and towns, attended by an estimated 5,000,000 guests and yielding a net profit of over...
...four birthday balls President Roosevelt had special interest. One was held in Georgia Hall, at Warm Springs Foundation, mainspring of the President's favorite charity. Another was held at Coral Gables, Fla. where Tycoon Henry L. Doherty, organizer of the birthday ball system, personally held sway. The third was a syndicate of birthday balls in Washington, to which 18,000 $2.50 tickets were sold entitling the bearers to visit balls at all or any of six hotels, to travel from ball to ball by free bus. Among the travelers were Guy Lombardo & orchestra, Cinemactress Ginger Rogers (who, though...
...July 31, 1933), Miss Corona showed herself at the Waldorf in a shining little shift and neat metallic girdle, while before her paraded still more socialites as the great love-women of history. Finally in marched 54 debutantes, each bearing a giant candle, 18 maids of honor, a giant birthday cake borne by four chefs, and Oscar of the Waldorf. Franklin Roosevelt was much pleased, for the four balls which he attended by proxy were but samples of many others. They varied in size from the one held at Tacna, Ariz, (pop.: 7) to the one held in Philadelphia...
...last week President Crocker's cronies gave him a big luncheon in the Pacific Union Club to celebrate his 75th birthday. As conservative as his bank, old Mr. Crocker is a stanch Republican whose years have been filled with civic duties. He headed the committee that welcomed Charles Evans Hughes when that GOPresidential nominee made his ill-fated visit to California in 1916. He was vice president of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, served on the board of regents of the University of California for two decades. In poor health of late, Mr. Crocker has been spending more & more...
...after last week's birthday party Mr. Crocker retired to his bank's chairmanship and his older son was named to succeed him as president. William Willard ("Willie") Crocker became a vice president in 1919 after a year's training tour through Manhattan's Bankers Trust Co. Like his father, he went to Yale (Class of 1915), earned a crew Y, a Phi Beta Kappa key, a tap on the back from Scroll & Keys. After a turn at the Harvard Law School, he drove an ambulance in France, attended a French artillery school, transferred...