Word: birthday
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Into the office of Jersey City's Mayor Frank Hague one day last week marched New Jersey's Governor-Elect, A. Harry Moore. "Mayor," said Mr. Moore, "this is your birthday and I always come to extend congratulations. Today I thought that in extending my congratulations I could make no better gift than to offer you the United States Senatorship to succeed...
Franklin Delano Roosevelt's birthday is the occasion for more organized whoopee than Washington's or Lincoln's. The first Roosevelt Birthday Balls in 1934 netted $1,003,000, the next $803,000, the last two together $353,000. Of this total $2,159,000, $809,000 remained in the home towns of the dancers for local institutions, $241,000 went to various medical schools for research. The remainder went to the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation...
With Georgia Warm Springs now self-sustaining and public interest in it waning, it was decided that this year the birthday celebration should finance a new National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. The event's organizers expect to raise $3,000,000, none of which will go to Georgia Warm Springs, but to research. Nominal head of the new organization is the President's onetime law partner, Basil O'Connor, who enthusiastically declared: "We could use the entire mint in this work and produce 10,000 Warm Springs." Actual head is Keith Morgan, good Roosevelt friend, glib insurance...
...church organizations have been asked to support and promote their local President's Birthday Balls this week for the benefit of infantile paralysis victims. Last week the Louisville, Ky. Council of Churches declined. Its reason, odd for a city church federation, was: "We don't approve of dancing...
...whose pastoral background had already been immortalized as the home town and nameplace† of James Fenimore Cooper, bought the original baseball field, spent $25,000 to transform it into a modern ball park and public playground, named it Doubleday field. Three years ago, in anticipation of the 100th birthday of the game, baseball bigwigs and benefactors joined hands to make Cooperstown a bigger, better shrine. To preserve its treasures, baseball sentimentalists decided to build an imposing three-story colonial brick museum. To immortalize its heroes, baseball administrators voted to establish therein a Baseball Hall of Fame -to take...