Word: birthdays
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...dissent. Finally Justice Stone read a decision upholding (5 to 4) Alabama's unemployment insurance law passed to conform to the Federal law. The Court having thus made a clean sweep of legal attacks on Social Security, Justice Cardozo went home to celebrate the day, his 67th birthday...
This week, in the private hospital where they have lived since they were a few weeks old, the Dionne Quintuplets celebrate their third birthday, an event even more amazing than their birth. Out of three dozen sets of quintuplets born during the past five centuries, the Dionnes are the only ones who lived more than one hour. Legally these five are Canada's and King George VI's. But even more they are Medicine's, for they certainly would have died in the western Ontario farmhouse where they were born May 28, 1934, if Medicine...
...barn at Lexington, Ky., 90 miles from where his colt last week won the Derby, Man o' War two months ago celebrated his aoth birthday. Still at stud, he has thus far sired 124 colts, 132 fillies of racing age, who have won $2,200,000 in prize money...
Claiming to be the oldest prison reform group in the world, the oldest organized charity in the U. S., the Prison Society last week celebrated its 150th birthday with vesper services at Old Christ Church, with Bishop Francis Marion Taitt representing the Episcopal Church, President Ernst Philip Píatteicher the Lutheran Ministerium, Secretary William B. Harvey the Orthodox Friends...
...Milwaukee dispatched to Laon, France a keg of Mississippi River water. In Laon, 300 years ago next June 1, was born Jacques Marquette, famed Jesuit who died at 38 near what is now Ludington, Mich., after evangelizing the Indians and exploring the Mississippi. In Laon, on Marquette's birthday, the Mississippi water will figure in the dedication of a statue of the Jesuit pioneer, cast from coppers given by French school children. In the U. S., President Roosevelt is expected to proclaim June 1 Marquette Day, and in the Senate an oration is to be delivered by Wisconsin...