Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Young As You Feel. In Scranton, Pa., Florence E. Dolph, 100, celebrated her birthday, as she has been doing for the past 79 years, by taking a slide down the banister...
Charles Evans Hughes said of Professor Pound on the occasion of his seventy-fifth birthday, "He has a unique place among American scholars. By reason of his wide knowledge of legal subjects and his rare talent for exposition, he has been a brilliant teacher. His writings constitute a notable contribution to the science of jurisprudence. He has also been a close student of the practical problems of the courts and has greatly aided in promoting sound administrative measures...
...Sitting prettiest: Rodgers & Hammerstein, with a producer's haul from Annie Get Your Gun, Happy Birthday, John Loves Mary...
Barry's birthday guests grabbed, pawed, rushed wildly from counter to counter. By 6 o'clock, when only tie clasps, flashlights and wallets were left, the doors were closed to replenish stocks, then reopened. Finally, at 11:30 p.m., the exhausted sales force gave up. The customers were told to help themselves; they...
Actually, the birthday frosting covered some doughy problems which hardly warranted such good spirits. The President would soon have to face the ticklish problem of vetoing or not vetoing the labor bill with which Congress is now in labor. Just over the horizon John Lewis was laying for him: on June 30 the Government's coal contract expires. Foreign relations were getting no simpler. But Harry Truman put off all such serious matters but one-a request to Congress for $25,000,000 to pay for a loyalty checkup of Government employees...