Word: birthday
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There were said to be among the Conservative Party's 377 M.P.'s some 60 who secretly oppose the Prime Minister, but as his 69th birthday approached last week notes of congratulation to Neville Chamberlain poured into No. 10 Downing Street from virtually the entire Conservative Party contingent in both Houses...
...children he would have something to worry about. But not Man o' War. Munching hay at his homestead at Faraway Farms, near Lexington, Ky., Man o' War, not quite 21,* had last week nothing to worry about-not even the preparations for his big birthday party March 29th-and he had something new (if he had known it) to be proud...
...biggest of the ten important U. S. publishers of medical books, W. B. Saunders Co.* of Philadelphia, last week celebrated its 50th birthday. Although handsome President Lawrence Saunders might have saluted himself for his formidable list of 800 medical texts ranging from the late Physiologist Hobart Amory Hare's Essentials of Physiology (published in 1888) to Dr. Leon Herman's The Practice of Urology (published this week), he saluted another instead: Professor Max Brödel of Johns Hopkins, the first & only professor of medical art in the world, illustrator of many Saunders books, crony of many Saunders...
...Good Health, author of Plain Facts (sex education via pictures of plant life), he is the inventor of flaked cereals manufactured by his brother, W. K. Kellogg. Dr. Kellogg once dictated (indoors) for 20 hours straight, dressed only in his summer underwear. Last week he celebrated his 86th birthday by stripping to a loin cloth, dictating (outdoors) to a secretary, having his picture taken...
Last week was National Cherry Week (as it is annually because of Cherry-Chopper George Washington's birthday). It was also whole or part of "National Defense Week," "National Orange Week," "Better American Speech Week," "National Horace Heidt Record Week."* Last week, too, the biggest U. S. industry revealed that it would for the first time appropriate a week for its special pleading: in Manhattan President Alvan Macauley of the Automobile Manufacturers Association announced that all U. S. motorcar makers would join in spending $1,250,000 to make March 5-12 "National Used Car Exchange Week...