Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Extraordinarily responsive to alcohol, Gould once gave gin its free rein, but now he's on the wagon. He claims he'll stay away from hard liquor until his ninetieth birthday; "then I'm going to get drunk and stay that way, even if it kills me." But the way things look now, nicotine may get him before alcohol...
...Army was felicitated on its 27th birthday. G.I.s of an air base depot gave liberated Russian war prisoners 4,000 packs of cigarets, 5,000 candy bars, 50,000 cookies...
Next day was Washington's Birthday. Congressmen listened solemnly to the invocation by Chaplain James S. Montgomery, heard George Washington's farewell address, delivered by Representative Marion T. Bennett of Missouri. Then Michigan's labor-baiting Clare Hoffman got the floor and the House forgot all about George Washington and Bill Gallagher, too. Clare Hoffman was barely set on his feet when he began to flail away at the C.I.O., the P.A.C. and the Communists. Michigan's Frank E. Hook, supported by C.I.O.-P.A.C. in the last election, broke in to defend his friends. Said...
...best friend Canada's Eskimos have ever had announced last week that he was stepping down to give a younger man a chance. On his 66th birthday (July 1) David Livingston McKeand will retire to "give a returned soldier a chance...
...Happy Birthday. In Brazil, Ind., entered on the court calendar for February 22 was the divorce case of George Washington v. Martha Washington...