Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...carnation in his buttonhole as he stepped into his office at the Treasury one morning last week, "is in honor of two years of Repeal. I think we have every reason to be moderately satisfied with the results."One result was that, on Repeal's second birthday, a citizen could buy himself a drink of hard liquor across a bar in 28 States and the District of Columbia. Only one State is wholly dry-Alabama. The Federal Government had during the past fiscal year taken in $411,000,000 in liquor taxes. The States had collected many millions more...
...result of this interest he established a foundation on his seventieth birthday in 1929, endowing it with $1,100,000, the income and capital of which was to be used without restriction "to enlarge the realms of human knowledge, to promote the general, moral, mental, and physical improvement of society so that the sum total of human welfare and wisdom may be increased and the cause of better understanding among all mankind promoted...
Dora is really very pretty; so pretty and innocent that it's a pity to cast her pathetic story in cold lead. But it's all for her good and anyway today is her birthday. Isn't that right, Dora? No, you mustn't touch the candles. They burn. Burn! Don't you understand? It hurts...
Willy is having a birthday too! The authorities tell us if we come tomorrow we could see Willy's play. And Willy is a fine actor. If only he could road! And how old are you, Willy? That's all right. Take your time. That's it! Willy is sixteen. There is considerable hope...
Right is Reader Sutherland. Catholic-born Manuel Quezon retracted Masonry on his 52nd birthday, 1930, aboard the S. S. Empress of Japan, in the presence of Most Rev. Michael J. O'Doherty, Archbishop of Manila. Two years later he demitted (i.e. resigned) from his lodge. -Ed. Man of the Year...