Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...April 30 issue of TIME I ran across two items that seemed to me to have been written in rather poor taste. One was the account of a birthday party held at the grave of a little girl, and the other was the article concerning Bob Michelet of Dartmouth...
Rank on rank, Fascist crowds piled into the spacious Piazza Venezia last week to honor the 2687th birthday of Rome. Nervous after an exhausting week in which he had endeavored to balance Italy's lopsided budget by cutting government salaries from 6% to 12%, ordering rents and the prices in government-controlled stores reduced from 12% to 15%, and raising bachelors' income taxes 10% and 25%, Benito Mussolini strode to the balcony to make a speech...
...Young Pretender (Charles Edward Stuart, grandson of James II) started a run in 1745. Napoleon's wars forced them to suspend payments in 1797. But the Old Lady of Threadneedle Street was not to be downed by war, rebellion, or civil commotion. This year she celebrates her 240th birthday...
...West Point, Ga., Nadine Earle's 25 Sunday-school classmates came to her fourth birthday party, played in the miniature house which was her Christmas present, ate ice cream & cake. Nadine's miniature house stands on Nadine's grave. She died week before Christmas...
...Society, world's second oldest religious group devoted to mariners,* found New York harbor one of the worst. Changing their name to the Seamen's Church Institute of New York, they labored to make it one of the best. Last week brought the Institute's 90th birthday. From his uptown Cathedral Bishop William Thomas Manning journeyed down to the waterfront. There in a chapel in the tall, block-long building which now houses the Institute, he pronounced his benison on its work. One shadow clouded the celebration. Last February died the "Seamen's Saint," Dr. Archibald...