Word: birthday
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...column, My Day, Mrs. Roosevelt told of a family party at the White House to celebrate her birthday, wrote about "a gentleman coming in to do some work" who later "played dance music for us." Since Mrs. Roosevelt's birthday party took place the night before the fireside chat. Columnist Westbrook Pegler acidly inquired...
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...President celebrated two anniversaries, those of 1) the death of Polish General Casimir Pulaski, Revolutionary War hero, for whom he made a brief speech upholding ". . . the ideal of human society which makes conscience superior to brute strength." 2) The birthday of his wife, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, to whom he gave a watertight wrist watch to replace one she ruined at a beach last summer...
...Warm Springs. It will try to co-ordinate research on cause, cure and prevention; conduct a "broad-gauged educational campaign"; disseminate information to physicians. It will not be under the Public Health Service, will be financed, like Warm Springs, from the proceeds of the President's annual birthday balls...
That he was also very nearly a great crook appeared before his 75th birthday. In 1934 two younger British book experts, John Carter and Graham Pollard, published a book with the innocuous title, An Enquiry into the Nature of Certain Nineteenth Century Pamphlets. It was a devastating investigation of an authoritative Wise catalog, proved up to the hilt that Thomas James Wise had for at least twelve years invented pedigrees for worthless books and pamphlets, passed off forgeries as genuine. Oldster Wise tried to bluster it out, finally retired in silence to his Hampstead house, lived secluded there until...