Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tenth birthday of the German Republic passed, last week, uncelebrated and ignored. No parades, no holiday. In the words of Minister of Justice Erich Koch-Weser "We look back ten years not to a birth but to a defeat. This is no holiday for Germany...
Ignace Jan Paderewski celebrated, last week, in London, his 68th birthday. The United Press reported: "He is still holding audiences spellbound with his magic touch on the ivory keys...
Eleven-Year-Old. Red Russia's birthday was November 7. Sadly enough, it could not be celebrated by the two famed founders of the Soviet State: Lenin & Trotsky. Dead is Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, called "Lenin" (TIME, Jan. 28). Banished is Leiba Bronstein, called "Leon Trotsky" (TIME, Jan. 30). Today Red Russia is dominated by a Dictator more egotistical than even Masaryk, more ruthless than even Kemal. He is Josef Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili. Because his inflexible will is like tempered metal, the great Lenin called him "Stalin." meaning "Steel." When the eleventh Red Birthday was celebrated. Comrade Citizens rejoiced, gamboled...
...people, sandwiches, chrysanthemums, telegraph tickers and commotion, to wait and hear how many millions of citizens were voting the way the Hoovers had voted. If Mrs. Hoover thought about the black cat during the day, there was another "omen," too. It was not only Mrs. Smith's birthday, but Herbert Hoover...
Doom came to the President-reject in a cavernous Manhattan armory. He went to it, with a plentiful supply of cigars, from his wife's birthday party, a strange party over which had hung the atmosphere of a tremendous uncertainty...