Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Franklin Roosevelt entrained in Washington to attend the celebration of Virginia Dare's 350th birthday. At Roanoke he and North Carolina's Governor Clyde Roark Hoey enjoyed the sight of a New Deal project, a new Fort Raleigh, erected by WPA. Then the President climbed upon a flag-bedecked stage and launched on one of his favorite themes, a modern political parable to a historical incident which he used as a broadsword to slash his political enemies...
...Hall ousting last week chanced to fall on the day preceding the birthday of Attorney Hall's 71-year-old mother, who, to celebrate the anniversary, had invited her three sons to dine with her. At Mrs. Hall's home last week, her sons waited in vain for her to appear. Next morning they found her body in the morgue, where it had been taken by police after she dropped dead on a busy street. Cause of her death was heart failure-attributable, doctors said, to the shock caused by news of her son's ousting headlined...
Died. Frederick Strauss, senior partner in the international banking firm of J. & W. Seligman & Co.; on his 72nd birthday; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...Scholl's corn pads . . . President Roosevelt, 8 x 10 . . . floor polish . . . screw drivers . . . garters . . . Melorol Mammoth Tulip Sundae . . . Flit . . . feathers . . . razor blades . . . Lucky Sapphire Birthday Brooches...
...Birthday. Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, thrice Premier of Great Britain; 70; in Stourport, England. Crippled by rheumatism, he sighed, "I am not making any more speeches this year...