Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Radio broadcasts will carry the voice of the Chief Executive from the White House in Washington tonight to the listeners at President Roosevelt's Second Annual Birthday Ball in Memorial Hall, which has been wired especially for this occasion...
...former classmates of President Roosevelt have been invited to the Birthday ball, and a large number of responses have been received, several of the classmates being from Cambridge. Among those present will be Edward A. Counihan '04, Judge of the Probate Court, and Franklin Ford '04, United States District Attorney for Massachusetts. This will be the second reunion of President Roosevelt's classmates within a year, as a gathering was held this summer at the White House...
Little America, Antarctica, Jan. 29--Men and dogs struggled over 18 miles of ice and snow today, transporting three tons of radio equipment so the Byrd Expedition could "attend" President Roosevelt's birthday ball...
...confess all this talk about the Roosevelt Birthday Ball makes me sick. How can you do anything about infantile paralysis until you know what causes it Only a small part of the money is to be used for research into the causes of the disease the rest for so-called prevention and cures. Anyway, the trouble is not primarily with a lack of funds for research. We've got money to spend but we haven't got enough ideas on the subject. I wouldn't have written this if I hadn't just spoken with two internationally know medical research...
...48th birthday last week Alexander Woollcott was still enough of a newspaper reporter to go to Flemington, N. J. to cover the fourth week of the Hauptmann trial for North American Newspaper Alliance. Proud is he of his early experiences as a Manhattan newshawk in the days of the Herman Rosenthal murder and the sinking of the Titanic. Yet he can, on occasion, forget his reporter's training long enough to put extra barbs on some paragraph of gossip, or to roll a log for one of his favorites. His humor has much of the feminine savagery of Dorothy...