Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Memphis, Tenn., Joe Huggins, who has been kept in a semicoma since Nov. 19, 1930 by what some doctors think is encephalitis and some a spine injury, last week reached his 11th birthday. He has lately begun to move his arms, legs and head...
...72nd birthday Charles Michael Schwab revealed that he was "lightening his load" by retiring as president of Manhattan's Whist Club and "only spending several hours a day" as board chairman of Bethlehem Steel. "But I'm not through playing bridge nor have I quit the Bethlehem Steel Co." said he. "I will always get a kick out of cards, and as for the Bethlehem Company-that is my monument...
...logic, the committee appointed in 1835 observed that the Massachusetts General Court must have begun its regular fall session before October 28, the day on which they issued the order for 400 pounds. So they took the first day of the session, September 8, and called that Harvard's birthday...
...World universities had not had the habit of picking any convenient boarding house as a class-room, Harvard probably wouldn't be celebrating its three hundredth birthday...
Summoned to the telephone, Maude Phelps Hutchins, artist-wife of Chicago University's youthful President Robert Maynard Hutchins, was told: "This is Postal Telegraph. We have a message for you." Then three girls in the telegraph office sang the message over the wire: "Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, "Happy birthday, dear Maude, happy birthday to you! - from Robert." Delighted, Mrs. Hutchins remembered that it was also the birthday of her good friend Mrs. Howard Linn, ordered the telegraph company to ring her up, and have sung: "Happy Birthday, dear Lucy. . . . from Maude and Bob." Next...