Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Crown Prince Mihai's eleventh birthday approached last week, his mother Princess Helen (who is estranged from King Carol and lives in London) traveled to Rumania. At the frontier she was met by the Rumanian Train and brought secretly to a suburban royal villa without entering Bucharest. Possibly Dr. Maniu, always a stanch champion of Princess Helen, will manage to patch things up. When he broke with the King two years ago Citizen Maniu reputedly said: "Sire, you can never be crowned unless the mother of Prince Mihai is crowned as Queen by your side...
...prepared to hear Heaven-storming, epoch-making music last week. Carpenter kept his emotions well hidden even when describing the death of the poor, ugly dwarf in The Birthday of the Infanta. Reticence marked his Song of Faith, played widely last winter in celebration of the Washington Bi-Centennial. The ballet Skyscrapers, proved, too, that Carpenter's expert craftsmanship serves him best in light, colorful music, unburdened by big ideas. But Patterns, with its sentimental waltz bit, its brief Spanish interlude, its sketchy piano embroidery, was almost anemic, its reception by critics and audience cool...
...Republic's Constitutional article providing broadly for "separation of church and State." That same day dynamic, counter-religious Don Manuel Azana became Premier of Spain. Last week he was still Premier-no mean record, considering Spain's tribulations. Firmly entrenched. Premier Azana celebrated his first official birthday by presentation to the Cortes of Spain's new Law of Religious Orders. This act, which Spaniards believed certain to pass, will implement the Constitution's counter-religious clauses, much as the Volstead Act implements the 18th Amendment...
...into the mouthpiece. Next came two explanations. First, Prince Mihai had been recalled to visit his Hohenzollern cousins in Sigmarin-gen, Germany. Then this was cancelled. Next explanation was that he had been recalled to Rumania in order to be with his father on Oct. 16. the latter's birthday...
...creek discovered in the Koyukuk River region of Alaska on the goth birthday of Oliver Wendell Holmes, retired U. S. Supreme Court Justice, was named Holmes Creek by the U. S. Geographic Board...