Word: birthday
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dawson Springs, Ky., Senator Alben W. Barkley very nearly missed reaching his 70th birthday next fortnight: the auto he was riding in was struck by another on a bridge. The other plunged 35 feet, injuring the driver's head; Barkley's car stayed aloft, with the Senator inside, uninjured but shaken...
Despite a tempestuous career marked by frequent American Federation of Labor raids and the oft-repeated charge that it is a "company union," the Harvard University Employees Representative Association will celebrate its tenth birthday in January...
...honor of the one hundred seventy second birthday of the United States Marine Corps, the University Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps unit will see a movie of one of the leatherneck battles during the last...
...first haymakers were aimed directly at his opponent, Mayor Bernard Samuel. Dilworth charged that 67-year-old Barney Samuel, a city payroller since 1903, tolerated bookmaking even at City Hall. He charged that City Hall workers and some merchants are annually dunned to buy the mayor a birthday present-e.g., a station wagon and a motorboat. Under Samuel, said Dilworth, a police inspector could easily pick up $30,000 a year in graft-and some inspectors were doing it. As for solving the city's acute sewage, parking, paving, housing and airport problems, the mayor has not even...
...Rodgers & Hammerstein, the most smashingly successful writing-composing-producing team now in show business. Across the street, the Rodgers & Hammerstein Oklahoma!, in its fifth year, was still playing to standees. Playing a few blocks away were three other big hits which the team produced (Annie Get Your Gun, Happy Birthday, John Loves Mary). As the first-night crowd, fully as conscious of its looks as an Agnes de Mille ballet, jostled into the theater, the faintly malicious question in almost everybody's mind was: Would the wonder boys do it again...