Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...National Affairs editors and researchers are indeed a stiff-necked race. Of the Jan. 24 issue you administer "a shocked reproof" to them for mistaking the anniversary the Jackson Day dinners celebrate. And on page 12 of the same issue these same recidivists say "Lincoln has never had his birthday celebrated, like Jackson Day, with $100-a-plate dinners...
...Jackson Day" is not "Jackson's birthday," and Reader Sternfels is being ungrammatical at TIME'S expense if he implies...
...earthly parts of themselves to pass away, and for the great metamorphosis into their eternal forms to overtake them. When the lovely heroine leaves her funeral and joins the dead, life as well as death is philosophized upon. She goes back to her family and her twelfth birthday, and there and then bewails the blindness of men and women, and their insensitivity to the great human values lying in great wealth all about them...
...good Democrats know their Party celebrates the anniversary of the Battle of New Orleans and not Jackson's birthday, which is March...
...spite of the fact that Abraham Lincoln by his Emancipation Proclamation deprived more people of property without due process than any President in U. S. history, he is the spiritual Andrew Jackson of the G. O. P. As a political saint, however, Lincoln has never had his birthday celebrated, like Jackson Day, with $100-a-plate dinners. Last week, to the Republican State Central Committee in Michigan came an idea for using Lincoln's feast day to make political mockery of Jackson Day. Their plan: to hold Lincoln Day dinners, the proceeds of which will be used...