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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...presumption had run against them. As their numbers grew, politicians became interested in them. Demand for an oldfashioned pension system which would care for these disabled in civil as well as military life arose. Last April the House in a reckless mood passed a bill to advance the date of presumption of World War disability to Jan. 1, 1930 (TIME, May 5). Fortnight ago the Senate passed (66-to-6) the same bill over the protests of President Hoover, Secretary Mellon and General Hines, director of the Veterans' Bureau. Theoretically the measure was still a compensation for War disability...
...This is an important day in North Carolina history-the date of the Declaration of Independence of North Carolina agriculture. . . . The 'Live-at-Home' idea is not a fad. We have already gotten out of the sentimental stage of talking about it. Already its results are apparent...
Birthday. Edward Prince of Wales. Age: 36. Date: June 23. Celebration: family assembly at Buckingham Palace...
...Beard, illustrator, author (Moonlight and Six Feet of Romance ; Shelters, Shacks & Shanties; Bugs, Butterflies & Beetles; Do It Yourself); "oldest Boy Scout," co-founder of Boy Scouts of America with Ernest Thompson Seton and Lt. -General Sir Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell;* associate editor of Boys' Life. Age: 80. Date: June 21. Celebration: opening presents from boy and men admirers all over the U. S. at his home, Brooklands, near Suffern, N. Y. Some of the presents: an alligator skin from Florida; a bolt of homespun from the Kentucky Blue Ridge Mountains; catlinite (reddish slate) peace-pipe from Indians...
Birthday. Mayor James John Walker, of New York. Age: 49. Date: June 19. Birthdate speech: "It's a good thing that Dick Byrd is coming to take the center of the stage" (Manhattan's Byrd welcome fell on the same...