Word: birthday
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wait on a new customer today at noon. The First Lady of the Land stored by my stand and purchased a bag of fresh roasted popcorn for pastime while she was walking with another fine lady and with one of her favored dogs." ¶ On her 49th birthday, the First Lady entertained Inventor Guglielmo Marconi & wife at luncheon, gave tea to the ladies at the A. F. of L. convention, had a quiet family dinner...
...having been founded primarily to rehabilitate King's College (now Columbia University) which had been suspended during the Revolution. New York State's University sometimes forgets its humdrum job and dons academic garb. It did so last week to celebrate, a bit ahead of time, its 150th birthday. Meeting in Chancellors' Hall in Albany in their 69th convocation, the Regents elected Vice Chancellor James Byrne, Manhattan lawyer, to succeed the late Chancellor Chester Sanders ("Boss") Lord, longtime managing editor of the New York Sun. They gave a Litt. D. degree to Dr. Herbert Seeley Weet, Rochester Superintendent...
...bodyguard. Senator Long yelled back: "Come down here and I'll Long Island you. I won't have five or six men jump on you the way they did on me and then run off. I'll man-to-man it with you." On her 78th birthday, Elizabeth Mead Johnson, mother of NRA's General Hugh Samuel Johnson, told Okmulgee, Okla. reporters: "I have been that boy's mother for 51 years, and I thought he was the greatest thing I ever saw when I first laid eyes on him. He has always been great...
...week. Into it shuffled an academic procession of delegates from 112 institutions, ranked by seniority all the way from Oxford and Cambridge down through Juniata College (founded 1876) to Reed College (founded 1911). The delegates, among them 50-odd college presidents, had come to help Haverford celebrate its 100th birthday...
...occasion of his ninetieth birthday, in 1924, thousands attended a gathering in the Yard to honor the aging president-emeritus while congratulatory messages from notables all over the country poured...