Word: birthday
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...capitalism at its worst. In our own life time through the persistent efforts of his publicity man, Mr. Ivy Lee, he has very nearly become the supreme personification of capitalism at its best. Has he not become a benign old gentleman who gives dimes to caddies and whose birthday is a regular newspaper event? That he was once thought of as an industrial giant who ruthlessly demolished his competitors and as an ogre who preyed upon a defenseless public is now usually forgotten...
...colossal job-of celebrating the Soviet State's 15th birthday last week was diligently done all over Russia. but nowhere with such zeal as in Red Moscow. For a whole week there was no food shortage. The State released at moderate prices thousands of tons of canned goods, butter, candy and other luxuries. To help feed more than 1,000,000 Russians who marched all day across the vast Red Square, while 1,000 marching bands blared Red music, the Moscow Soviet spent 4,000,000 rubles (nominally $2,000,000). Because Russians love nothing so much...
...particular reference to the U. S. "The American President," cried the Russian President, "acts like an illiterate peasant in the fields waiting for heaven to send him rain! Hoover waits for prosperity while the present regime only increases the starvation of millions of people." Observers turned from such Soviet birthday talk to scan the Soviet record: Russia's 15 Red Years began with a prelude on Oct. 26, 1917 when slender, semitic, smouldering-eyed Leon Trotsky (né Bronstein) harangued the existing Petrograd workers' Soviet (council) into passing a resolution that Trotsky & Friends should take supreme military command...
Speaking before the American Academy of Arts and Letters at its annual meeting in New York Thursday evening, Irving Babbitt '89, professor of French Literature, delivered an address on "The Problem of Style in a Democracy." The meeting was largely given ever to the celebration of the 80th birthday of Dr. Henry van Dyke, noted author and clergyman...
...wonder as you look at him and listen to him-is it so impossible that he be the Raphael reincarnate? For he tells you that his birthday falls on the same day, the same month as the Italian's. . . . The horses in the Ravenne bear an, unmistakable likeness to Raphael...