Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Foreign Commissar is a most unimportant character, not to be compared with such weighty men as Defense Commissar Voroshilov or Commissar of Transportation Andreyev, photographs of rotund Commissar Litvinoff are practically non-existent in Russia. Millions of good Communists do not even know of his existence. As a birthday present Joseph Stalin decided last week that his Foreign Commissar had been neglected long enough. To him the Red dictator sent the rosette of the Order of Lenin, highest Soviet decoration, and all Soviet papers suddenly burgeoned with photographs of the rotund face, familiar to all Europe, under the caption...
...promoted him to the top-notch rank of Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor. Replied U. S. Citizen Rockefeller, 62: "The praise should go to my father for two reasons. The first reason is that in early youth I learned from my father, who is approaching his 97th birthday in the best of health, that the greatest satisfaction comes from rendering a worthwhile service. . . . The other reason is that it is only because of my father's unprecedented generosity to me in early life that what I have done has been possible...
...Supreme Pontiff's intimates lately told newshawks that despite their advice Pius XI tires himself by talking at length with pilgrims, sometimes repeating the same idea over & over in different words. On his birthday, instead of speaking in French or Italian as he usually does, he addressed visitors in Latin, making mistakes which could be attributed only to fatigue. According to Rome Correspondent Sonia Tomara of the New York Herald Tribune, release of the papal encyclical on the cinema, longest ever issued to the U. S. hierarchy, was hastened last week before a breakdown of the Pope...
Meanwhile Dominion subjects noted that the only one of the King's numerous premiers to figure in the Birthday Honors was Australia's ebullient Premier Joseph Aloysius Lyons, upon whose advice His Majesty acted last week in appointing Mr. Lyons to the Order of Companions of Honor. Popular was a posthumous gesture by King Edward toward the late Rudyard Kipling, who repeatedly refused a knighthood. The doctor who operated upon Poet Kipling in his last hours (TIME, Jan. 27), Surgeon Alfred Edward Webb-Johnson, received a knighthood...
...King's birthday last September his sales were going so well that the Queen raised his regular allowance from $3 to $15 per week, the raise being granted on condition that Peter II keep accounts on his shop. During the winter this fretted His Majesty even more than his cramming for examinations. Last week the court physician described the King as "over-worked," approved a vacation which His Majesty will spend this year bathing, fishing and mountain-climbing on the Dalmatian seacoast until mid-September...