Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...before his accession to the Throne. It placed the Kiel Regatta on a par of nautical swankness with Britain's Cowes Regatta. Last winter German socialites of the Kaiserlicher Club nearly provoked the Nazi brownshirt proletariat of Kiel to riot by announcing they would celebrate Jan. 27 the birthday of Der Kaiser. A clash was averted. The Kaiserlichers dined and roared "Hoch der Kaiser!", but Storm Troops in Kiel then and there resolved to destroy a Club whose motto did not seem to be "Heil Hitler!" A message from Kiel to Doom bleakly informed Commodore Wilhelm Hohenzollern that...
...PREMIER OF CHINA* The Chinese people have such strong nerves and docile wisdom that they have taken Premier Chiang's scoldings in good part, and last week on his 50th birthday he was unquestionably the greatest man in the Far East, recognized joyfully as such by Chinese, and by Japanese as definitely Bogieman...
...Chinese Government has begun to show itself astonishingly bolder. Drastic censorship in both Tokyo and Nanking has delayed and blurred this greatest Far East news story. By last week, however, it seemed clear that the present which her bantamweight Premier & Generalissimo was giving his country on his 50th birthday was a heavyweight and possibly a knockout blow of Chinese statecraft, ending the policy toward Japan which the Nanking Government has pursued for nearly a decade: the turn-the-other-cheek policy of accepting humiliation...
Three all-important events in Harvard's history will be fittingly observed by a service in the Memorial Church at 8:45 o'clock Saturday morning. These are the end of the Tercentenary year, the beginning of Harvard's fourth century, and John Harvard's 329th birthday...
University officials hope to make an annual institution of the double observance of the Founding of the College and John Harvard's birthday. With this year's service the Tercentenary celebration becomes a thing of the past...