Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...also said that modest Mr. Webb's acceptance of his title was his second sacrifice of the month for the Labor Party. Because his attainments made it a necessity that he be a member of the new MacDonald Cabinet, he relinquished his plan to retire after his 70th birthday, which occurs this month, and became Secretary of State for the Colonies & Dominions. Not having entered the recent election he holds no seat in the House of Commons and had perforce to become a peer because the English Parliamentary system demands that a Cabinet Minister sit in one House...
...eyed citizenry of Midwestern hamlets before the Civil War. Husky, usurious, "Doc" believed sharping made the victim sharp. Hence didactic William sharped his own son out of board-money. That son, grateful for sharpness thus acquired, was, is, John Davison Rockefeller, "world's richest man," whose ninetieth birthday comes next week...
...would memorize hymns and Scripture passages, play clerk to the trustees, mingle with solid people, spend little. A sanctimonious social life satisfied him, but high school did not. Though nattered by his academic nickname, "The Deacon," he was lured early by Business. Leaving school two months after his sixteenth birthday in 1855, he soon became office-boy in a warehouse on a day since reverenced by the Rockefeller clan. Never the mythical, poverty-stricken Rockefeller boy, he became at 17 a trustee of the Erie Street Baptist. He was junior partner and bookkeeper of the young but prosperous firm...
...Senate's patriarch last week had a birthday. Republican Senator Francis Emory Warren of Wyoming was 85. The Senate rose and cheered...
...March, Elisha Walker's Blair & Co. merged with Amadeo Peter Giannini's Bank of America, N. A. (TIME, April 1), the union was generally interpreted as a combination of Giannini resources with Blair & Co. personnel. When, last month (TIME, June 3), Banker Giannini announced that his 60th birthday (1870-1930) would mark his retirement, evident became Elisha Walker's position as Heir Apparent. Thus last week's amalgamation of Bank of America, N. A., with Chatham and Phenix National Bank and Trust Co. might well have been regarded as First Result of Blair & Co. influence...