Word: birthday
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...decision was written by Justice Chester Almeron Fowler, a handsome, upstanding, straight-thinking gentleman who golfs, fishes, camps, walks 24-miles to his office every day and will probably celebrate his 73rd birthday this week by a brisk game of curling. Famed for his verbal vigor, old Justice Fowler growled in his insurance case decision...
...past six months Alaska's 60,000 inhabitants have tucked away 700,000 gal. of alcoholic beverages. Last week, on Repeal's birthday, a group of the more responsible Eskimos at Nome besought the Territorial Board of Liquor Control to make it a crime even to give one of their tribesmen liquor...
...half his life Composer Jean Sibelius has been treated like a national hero in his native Finland. The Finnish Government has long subsidized him so that he could give all his time to writing music. Fellow Finns cheer him whenever he appears in public, never let his birthday pass without doing him some honor. Partly because his best works seem at first forbidding, partly because he has chosen to spend most of his life quietly at home, Sibelius has been slow to gain a worldwide recognition. This week when the big, bald Finn was 70, that recognition...
Sibelius was so besieged by well-wishers last week that he had his telephone disconnected. He went into Helsinki for his birthday concert attended by 8,000 adoring Finns and the Premiers of Finland, Sweden, Denmark and Norway. His surprise of the week came when he heard the result of the New York Philharmonic's recent radio poll. Sibelius attracted little attention when he visited the U. S. in 1914. Today U. S. music-lovers have voted him the most popular of all living composers...
...Manhattan, as on preceding birthdays (TIME, Dec. 17, 1934), newshawks sought out beautiful, little white-whiskered Dr. Charles Giffen Pease on his 81st birthday. Dr. Pease obliged: "My friends, I can tell a poison addict at a glance. I go into the park to walk. I pick out the children who are receiving cocoa, a drink as noxious as the poisonous alcohol. How can I tell? By the degeneracy of the skin, and the tissue around the eyes. It is unfailing. 'Madam,' I say, 'your child is receiving cocoa.' 'Yes,' she replies...