Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three days later, in time to reach Washington for Secretary Dulles' 68th birthday party, Ike and Mamie boarded the Columbine III at Moultrie's Spence Field. As Ike walked up the ramp to the airplane, a woman in the watching crowd shouted, "Now stand right there, and tell us you're going to run." For a moment Ike hesitated and newsmen gawked. Then he burst into laughter and ducked inside...
...trade, a grand jury voted indictment of 115 of the city's Negro leaders-including a score of Negro ministers. "In this state," the indictment read, "we are committed to segregation by custom and by law; we intend to maintain it." Arrested on George Washington's birthday, one of the Negro ministers responded: "The Negroes are not on trial here, but Montgomery is on trial. The eyes of the world are focused here...
...Washington's birthday rally in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall, Wisconsin's U.S. Senator Joseph R. McCarthy was reminded, he said, "that America has always been blessed with great leaders in times of great trial." In the early days Washington rose from the ranks to lead the country in war and peace; in latter days "another great general" has come along. Said McCarthy: "I refer, of course, to General Douglas MacArthur...
...Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd to introduce a federation bill in the British Parliament before the summer recess. And it set in motion preparations for the 1958 election of the first legislature. Such far-reaching agreement did not go unmarked; the delegates voted unanimously that henceforth the birthday of the new nation, Feb. 23, would be known as Federation...
...100th birthday of the Republican National Committee, top Presidential Aide Sherman Adams and G.O.P. National Chairman Leonard Hall celebrated at a Washington party, munched morsels of cake, in their high spirits apparently forgot to remove the candles from their goodies...