Word: birthday
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Oilman Henry Latham Doherty announced the President's annual birthday balls (poliomyelitis benefits) for Jan. 30. William Donner Roosevelt, 4, only one of the President's seven grandchildren not to spend Christmas at the White House, emptied his coin bank in Philadelphia and bought the first five tickets...
...Majesty at once set to work signing messages of congratulation to British near-centenarians which will be delivered on the 100th birthday of each. His Majesty commanded that his own 41st birthday this week be not celebrated or observed. He commanded that he shall be crowned May 12, 1937, the day on which the Duke of Windsor was to have been crowned. The 300 Privy Councilors were asked by all their intimates one question: "Does he still stutter?" No Privy Councilor could be found willing to be quoted as saying that His Majesty does not still stutter...
Celebrating the occasion of his eightieth birthday, President Lowell will be given a dinner by the Overseers and the Corporation of the University at the Harvard Club of Boston Sunday night. On Monday he will again be feted when he attends the annual dinner at Lowell House...
...special observances are planned at the latter event since President Lowell prefers to be considered merely a spectator at this yearly observance, which in the beginning was arranged in honor of his birthday. Two short plays will be presented and several selections sung by the House Glee Club...
...modern times to American education. The introduction of the House Plan, the founding of the School of Business Administration, the tutorial system, and the system of concentration and distribution have all taken place under his leadership. As President Angell wrote on the occasion of Lowell's seventy-fifth birthday "his service to Harvard has been of the most notable character and has been recognized all over the country as contributing to the development of American education in many of its most fundamental aspects. His courageous and persistent support of higher and more severe ideals of accomplishments in the college...