Word: birthday
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Crusty old Tom Connally, Texas' retired Democratic Senator, celebrated his 76th birthday by shaking his finger at the young scamps in the party: "The Democrats can overdo this business of bragging about their support of President Eisenhower. That sort of thing may be no help in the years to come...
...79th birthday, and ready for more work ("Unending public chores seem to have become my privilege in life"), Herbert Hoover talked of his high hopes for the Federal Commission on the Reorganization of the Executive Branch, which he will head. Said he: "[Perhaps] the commission can contribute something to lessen what President Eisenhower has aptly described as our 'staggering economic burdens'. . . strengthen private enterprise, reduce the burdens of taxation, lessen bureaucratic tyranny over our citizens and generally improve the efficiency of our government...
Despite a cerebral hemorrhage two years ago, Tobey continued to scold and thunder for the ways of righteousness. Last week in his Senate office, just two days after his 73rd birthday, he collapsed with a heart attack. In the hospital a few hours later he died peacefully, in his sleep. "No man need fear God or the devil," he once said, "if he tells the truth...
...Sons of Richard Wagner's only son, Siegfried, who was born to Wagner's second wife, Cosima, illegitimate daughter of Composer Franz Liszt, who divorced Conductor Hans von Bülow to marry Wagner. For Coca's first birthday after the marriage, Wagner composed his famed Siegfried Idyll, based on themes from his opera Siegfried...
...believe in a small community in which nobody can be sad, fall ill, have his birthday, or be tactless, without being consoled, nursed, celebrated or criticized by all ... When we return to Villigst we may be excited about our work, happy about our possible success and achievement. We then feel we need evening prayers as we need our daily bread. In praying, in singing a religious song, in listening to the Bible, we regain our balance. We recognize our limitations, and humbleness before God sets our human pride back into the right perspective...