Word: birthday
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Princess Elizabeth, on her twelfth birthday (April 21), and Princess Margaret Rose...
...last week paraded 8,522 men and 870 horses, the well-trained German troops goosestepping, the as yet untutored German Austrians passing by in an ordinary march. No novelty is a parade to the German capital, but this one, shorter than usual, had as its special point the 49th birthday of the Chief of National Defense of Greater Germany, Adolf Hitler...
...hrer Hitler was being pictured as a military as well as a political genius. It fell to no army officer but to Dr. Otto Dietrich, Reich Press Chief, to reveal that Genius Hitler's technical knowledge of things military "astonishes even the experts." So exultant was the Hitler birthday celebration throughout the Reich that Dr. Wilhelm Frick, Minister of the Interior, was moved to summarize: "Adolf Hitler is Germany and Germany is Adolf Hitler...
...nonmilitary feature of the birthday was to be seen at the German Chancellery, into which flowed truckloads of gifts from ecstatic admirers. Der Führer received tons of flowers, hundreds of cakes, a set of phonograph records of Anschluss speeches, a set of foreign translations of Mein Kampf, a lion cub, the 500,000th Daimler-Benz car, a portrait of the late General Erich Ludendorff and numerous cradles, baby carriages, and babies' clothes "from the provinces"-i. e., from provincial families still unaware that the man who so often appeals to German mothers for more and better children...
Charles Townsend Copeland '82, Harvard's legendary teacher of rhetoric, plans no special observance on his anniversary, just a few friends in for the evening to talk. He wants no fuss over his birthday, preferring to wait until his 80th...