Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Franklin D. Roosevelt was saluted by Kentucky, which became the first state to make his birthday (Jan. 30) a legal holiday...
That was the beginning of George's rise. He made himself useful in small political ways. He espoused the New Deal, helped work out WPA with Harry Hopkins, helped think up the Roosevelt Birthday Balls. His circle of friends grew. The Home Insurance Co. made him a vice president in charge of public relations, and corporations began putting him on their boards...
...College. It applies to homecomings, and to "hell weeks" (during which freshman coeds have to do such tricks as painting class numerals on their cheeks and dancing the conga backwards). Last week Beloit had an official party, with Novelist Lin Yutang as an honored guest, to celebrate its 100th birthday...
...twelfth president of Amherst, among whose graduates were Classmates Dwight Morrow and Calvin Coolidge, Dr. Cole will succeed President Stanley King, 62 (a fraternity brother in Delta Kappa Epsilon), who is retiring July 1, soon after Amherst's 125th birthday party. As an old grad returning home, Charles Cole well knows the history of Amherst's elm-grown, hilltop campus, which had its start when a group of ardent Puritans from Williams College struck out for themselves, determined to "educate indigent young men of hopeful piety...
Last week his newspaper, now the News Chronicle, was 100 years old, and unlike the tired-to-death Liberal Party it champions, still going strong. Its birthday party in the swank Dorchester Hotel was England's biggest tie-&-tails turnout since...