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...Moscow, when the 50th birthday of Commissar of War Klimentiy Voroshilov rolled around last week a public subscription was opened. With the proceeds three thumping birthday presents will be bought, presented to Comrade Voroshilov: a dirigible, "several combat planes,"? a submarine...
...Eckener, Capt. Lewis A. Yancey, U. S. to Rome flyer, Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, Capt. Dieudonne Coste and Maurice Bellonte. He has approved Government help given to scientific institutions, Smithsonian Institution, etc.; in 1929 he appointed 17 delegates to the World Engineering Congress, Tokyo; he spoke at the 50th anniversary of invention of the incandescent lamp; he appointed a committee to study social trends, put Sociologist William Fielding Ogburn, University of Chicago, in charge; he plans to invite Albert Einstein to the White House...
...expected the pace to continue, or even thought there would not soon be another recession, sentiment was considerably improved. Among opinions expressed, notable was that of George McClelland Reynolds, 65, chairman of Continental Illinois Bank & Trust Co., most potent of Chicago bankers. Said Banker Reynolds, last week completing his 50th year in banking: "The fact is that while all the worrying is being done over business the improvement is already under way. I should not be surprised if by the middle of December we find conditions considerably improved...
...somewhat before 9 a. m. the 50th day (pentecost means 50th day) after Easter. The Jews had celebrated their Pentecost the sennight before, to commemorate Moses' giving their ancestors the Ten Commandments 50 days after the Exodus from Egypt. Peter and the other eleven Apostles, including newly elected Matthias,* were communing in the upstairs room of a Jerusalem house. Then and thus The Acts...
Last week occurred the 50th birthday of Director William R. Valentiner of the Detroit Institute of Arts, onetime director of the Kaiser-Friedrich Museum in Berlin. It was perhaps his happiest birthday. First, 50 friends gave him a dinner, and $5,000 in gold. Second, he had just engineered for his museum the largest exhibition of Rembrandts ever assembled in the U. S. There were 78 paintings, ten of them owned in Detroit, many loaned by the nation's wealthiest private collectors -John Pierpont Morgan, Michael Friedsam, Charles M. Schwab, Jules Semon Bache, et al. Of another event...