Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...German girl child was born in London 115 years ago last week to become Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, and later Empress of India. Thus did Britain become an Empire. Last week on Victoria's birthday Britain and her Commonwealth of Nations celebrated Empire Day. ¶ In Ottawa, Canada's Premier Bennett raised his voice to tell a Canadian Chamber of Commerce luncheon in London by wireless telephone: "All our ideas of Empire have changed except that of devoted allegiance to the Crown.'' ¶ In Cape Town, General Jan Christiaan Smuts declared: ''Secession...
Before the Trustees of Warm Springs Foundation in the East Room of the White House, Rear Admiral Gary T. Grayson presented the President with a check 3 ft. long by 18 in. wide, for $1,003,030.08 - receipts for the President's "birthday balls" last January. The amount was half a million dollars smaller than Warm Springs had confidently hoped for but the President waved the check triumphantly aloft, before handing it to Trustee Arthur Carpenter. "Just for five or ten seconds, Carp," said the President, "I wouldn't trust you longer with it. No danger was there...
...upright on his throne. Hearstpapers trom coast to coast blossomed with pictures of a virile-looking Hearst on the tennis court with his three eldest sons fat George, thin William Randolph Jr. and John Randolph (see cut). The pictures were taken on Publisher Hearst's 71st birthday and broadcast by his able picture chief, Walter Howey...
Walter Howey was one of 76 birthday party guests at San Simeon. He had flown out from Manhattan with Thomas . White, general manager of the Hearst publications, Richard E. Berlin, chief of Hearst magazines, William A. Curley managing editor of the New York Evening Journal. Mrs. Eleanor ("Cissy") Patterson arrived from Washington. Mrs. Winifred Black ("Annie Laurie") went down from San Francisco. Hollywood was represented by a huge delegation including...
Marion Davies, Norma Shearer, Irving Thalberg, Gary Cooper & wife. All donned costumes (by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) of the year of the great man's birth. Men paraded about as Union or Confederate officers. Women wore crinoline gowns, hoop skirts. At the birthday dinner an enormous cake, wired for sound, sang out: "Dear Mister Hearst: This is your birthday cake speaking to you to give you the greetings of your friends assembled here and your friends all over the world to wish you happiness this...