Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...several plain-clothes men escorted John Coolidge through Chicago, Brule-bound. He reached his family in time to go with them to blind John Taylor's tiny Congregational Church. Just before his sermon Mr. Taylor said: "I take this opportunity of wishing President Coolidge a very happy birthday and many, many happy returns." As everyone knew, Calvin Coolidge would be 56 on the Fourth of July...
...sighed the Mayor of New York City last fortnight. It was four o'clock in the afternoon and he had just reached his office for a day's work. "However, I am glad to be of service." Mayor Walker had been celebrating his 47th birthday, beginning with a banquet the previous midnight, tendered by the Friars Club of New York, music by Paul Whiteman...
...Brule on July 2 and spend Independence Day with President Coolidge. But this plan was abandoned when the President let it be known that he wanted no guests until August. The notification ceremony at Palo Alto, Calif., was tentatively set for August 10, the Beaver Man's 54th birthday. Then the date was changed to the last week in July...
From Philadelphia came the broadside of Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, publisher of the New York Evening Post, Philadelphia Public Ledger, Satevepost. Publisher Curtis who last week observed his 78th birthday, his 53rd year as a publisher, could not content himself with sharp, angry answer. He fought back. What about this man Siegfried, anyway? "He is said to be a professor. The title is very likely a misnomer." He groped for epithets. "Absurd," he cried . . . "Ridiculous . . . Ignorant...
Grand Sachem Voorhis, by no means feeble, thanked everyone and announced that he hoped to pass his 100th birthday with Alfred Emanuel Smith in the White House. He also said: "Everybody talks about Tammany . . . but hardly anyone seems to know. To listen to them talk you'd think that the Tammany Society was one and the same thing as the Democratic party of this city. But it's not. The Democratic party became connected with Tammany only because it began years ago to hold its meetings in our hall...