Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pink roses, crape myrtle and maidenhair fern decorated the State dining room table when President Hoover had Dr. Harmodio Arias, President-elect of Panama, in to luncheon. ¶ Aug. 11, one day after his 58th birthday, was set for President Hoover's speech accepting renomination. ¶ President Hoover transferred the Department of Commerce's Radio Division (established in 1911) to the Federal Radio Commission. Affected were 190 employes, an annual expenditure...
...name to conjure with is Frank Julian Sprague's, yet last week the foremost electrical engineers of the land and scores of other celebrities gathered in Manhattan to do him honor on his 75th birthday. They called him the "father of modern electric traction" (both horizontal and vertical). Listening quizzically, he beamed behind his mustache, half closed his keen old eyes...
...38th birthday last week H R H golfed, dined with Queen Mary, absented himself from the Royal Court that night (see above...
THIS short lecture delivered by Professor Morison on Washington's birthday, at Sanders Theatre is both very interesting and amusing. He takes up the youth of Washington, which has always been enshrouded in the unauthentic myths and stories that often accompany extraordinary posthumous fame, and makes of him a real boy and real young...
...only five had any substantial backing. They were Lord Rosebery's Miracle, the Aga Khan's Dastur, Cockpen, Hesperus, and April the Fifth, owned by an actor-manager named Tom Walls. Tom Walls had bought April the Fifth-named for its birthday, which was also Actor Walls's-as a yearling for 200 guineas. Last week he told all his friends to bet on April the Fifth, promised his cinema company at Elstree a week's holiday...