Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...friend of Franklin Delano Roosevelt stepped down last week to let a younger man step up. On his 75th birthday, kindly, white-haired Leighton Goldie McCarthy resigned as Canada's Ambassador to the U.S. To his post Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King promptly appointed McCarthy's assistant, Lester Bowles Pearson, O.B.E., one of the ablest men in Canada's small but expert foreign service...
...Your Great Hour." But Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt was thinking too. His converse idea: to take off the Allies' pressure in the Düren-Jülich sector by a full-out attack even farther south. Just past his 69th birthday but by no means a tired old man, Rundstedt was reported to be at Coblenz, where he had assembled his best tactical brains in one headquarters. To his troops he proclaimed...
King George VI celebrated his 49th birthday? by giving the first dance at Buckingham Palace since World War II began?a birthday ball with 100 invited guests and the Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret Rose, attending their first ball in London...
...King officially celebrates his birthday in June because the weather is better and ceremonies can be held outdoors...
...middies and those juniors who left the bar will attest, this was a bang-up affair. A great success for all, it was a memorable birthday for Mr. Salmon...