Word: birthday
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...same day this week Henry Ford, 74, and Clara Bryant Ford celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary and Mrs. Ford's 71st birthday by dining informally at Son Edsel's with old friends & neighbors. Next day Dearborn luncheon clubs presented Motorman Ford with a book containing 4,000 admiring letters. The clubs also announced they had drawn up a 500,000-signature, mile-and-a-half-long petition to Franklin Roosevelt, asking him to call off Labor's attacks on Ford. The petition will be carted to Washington in a trailer...
...that lively Betty Vandenberg, who year ago made her debut as a pianist with the Grand Rapids Symphony Orchestra, contrived to make news. Last fortnight, she was the central figure in a de luxe musicale given by her father at the Sulgrave Club in honor of his own 54th birthday. The Vandenberg guest list of 300 included, as well as two Supreme Court Justices, half-a-dozen Ambassadors and a quorum of top-ranking Republicans, a good handful of anti-Roosevelt Democrats like Montana's Wheeler, Missouri's Clark and Rhode Island's Gerry. Washington political wiseacres...
With the Fourth of July just around the corner, it is high time that steps were taken to really celebrate the birthday of the United States. Away with picnicking, motoring, listening to political rallies, holding family reunions, and other more or less painful ways of getting killed! Let Mallinckrodt Laboratory step into the breach by advocating something for the Mallinckrodtians to advocate. What will it be? Why, let the Mallinckrodtians advocate fireworks...
Boston Harvard Club members turned out 270 strong to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the founding of the club and the 25th birthday of the clubhouse on Commonwealth Avenue at the annual dinner and meeting last night at the clubhouse...
...channels the Chamberlain-Hitler-Blum-Mussolini negotiations continued last week with the secrecy already publicly announced by His Majesty's Government. The London corps of correspondents, about as well informed last week as a group of orphan puppies, came tail-wagging to the Prime Minister, tendered him a birthday party. In high good humor, hawk-faced Neville Chamberlain, who at close range can be a very clubable man, shyly compared himself to a camel, citing a proverb which he said he thinks is Chinese: "One decrepit camel still bears the burden of many asses...