Word: cake
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Birthdays. Calvin Coolidge. Age: 58. Date: July 4. Celebration: opening mail at his Northampton, Mass, law office. From Lee Ting Quan, oldtime chef on the Presidential yacht Mayflower, now a Manhattan restaurateur, he received a 20-lb fruit cake decorated with rosebuds and green leaves...
...then there is the spread which antedates the famous ban on "plum cake" in 1639. The present has inherited all of this zest and feeling of an institution that harks back to the beginnings of Harvard. Yet all of this is mere froth, brilliant colors and empty noise. But behind it there is a meaning, and a very substantial tradition. It is the pageant of the unforgettable past...
...Fall River, Mass., Janitor John T. Tinney of the Borden Continuation School (for girls only) found two boys taking baths, another baking cake for breakfast, a fourth with pockets full of stolen lead pencils...
About the house where Mother Jones lay was much bustle. The local Bakers Union was preparing a 100-candle cake. Pilgrims were to be received, apparatus installed for a radio broadcast of a May Day message by the "Grand Old Woman of Labor" to her oldtime followers...
...fact that Blair and California Packing are very friendly. At present General Foods has more than 80 branded products (ten leading ones: Walter Baker's Chocolate, Maxwell House Coffee, Calumet Baking Powder, Postum, Hellman's Mayonnaise, Grape Nuts, JellO, Log Cabin Syrup, Swan's Down Cake Flour, Diamond Crystal Salt) which it distributes through 400,000 grocery stores. The average age of the component companies is 40 years. Hoariest of all is Walter Baker's Chocolate, now celebrating its 150th anniversary. Chairman of General Foods is Edward F. Hutton, husband of the daughter of Postum-Founder...