Word: birthday
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Look at that!" cheerily exclaimed President Roosevelt as he joined the White House birthday party of Granddaughter Anna Eleanor ("Sistie") Dall and beheld her huge six-candled cake. He started the party of youngsters off by helping them pull their colored snappers, adjust their paper caps. C. At a press conference last week President Roosevelt outlined his plans for establishing an "extraordinary budget" to cover emergency expenditures for relief, public works, mortgage refinancing. By this method of bookkeeping which many a critic condemns as concealing the true state of Federal finances, the President would "constructively"' balance the regular Budget...
...Proceedings of the U. S. Congress have been broadcast on special occasions-President Hoover's speech on Washington's Birthday, 1932; the Coolidge Memorial service last January: the first day of this year's special session. Plans are afoot, but strongly opposed, to install permanent broadcasting equipment in both House end Senate...
Also announced were two named fellowships for research at the Law School. One is the Brandels Fellowship established in 1926 on the occasion of the seventieth birthday of Mr. Justice Brandeis, by some of his friends as a part of the endowment fund. This fellowship has been awarded to L. B. Orfield, assistant professor of Law at the University of Nebraska. The other award is the Judah Philip Benjamin Research Fellowship, awarded to H. A. Judy, of San Francisco, California, now a graduate student at the Harvard Law School. The fellowship was established in 1926 by an anonymous donor...
Foster son of William Hoover Yawkey, Detroit lumberman and onetime owner of the Detroit Tigers, Thomas Austin Yawkey inherited $4,000,000 from his mother, who died when he was 15. Last month, on his 30th birthday, he got almost as much from the estate of his foster father who died in 1919. To help him run his team as vice president and general manager, Owner Yawkey chose Eddie Collins, famed second baseman and coach of the Philadelphia Athletics. They planned to retain Marty McManus who managed the Red Sox ably for the last half of the 1932 season...
...Opera Company, was given a party this week. His 200 singers sang for him. Oldtime Metropolitan stars returned to the stage to honor him.* Swayed by the wholehearted sentiment which opera-folk thrive on, the house fairly shook with shouts when the Metropolitan ballet shaped itself into a giant birthday cake, held up 25 candles. From his grandtier box Mr. Gatti gravely gave the Italian salute but no amount of persuasion would bring him to the stage from which he took his last bow in 1908, standing between Conductor Arturo Toscanini and Tenor Enrico Caruso...