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...appeared Nan Britton to press her claim to the illicit love of the 29th President of the U. S. With her was her prim and mannerly 12-year-old daughter Elizabeth Ann whom she presented to the world in her book, The President's Daughter (1927) as the bastard of President Harding, conceived in the Senate Office Building. In 1928 one Joseph de Barthe. now dead, wrote and published a thin little book entitled The Answer to "The President's Daughter" in which he defended President Harding's good name, denied that the President was biologically able...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Ghosts | 11/9/1931 | See Source »

...Judith became a governess for a while, then went back to the Herries family in Cumberland. She might have married again but she was faithful to Georges' memory. A combination of wildness and character, however, led her to such kind lengths that one fine day she had a little bastard baby. As her story closes she is holding together what is left of the oH Herries household against the machinations of a spiteful younger branch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Old Red | 11/9/1931 | See Source »

...General Election, but 65 candidates automatically became members of the House of Commons last week when no other candidate appeared in any of their constituencies to make them fight. Thus popped back into the House were slim, aristocratic Speaker of the House Edward Algernon Fitzroy (proud of his Royal bastard ancestry) and Stanley Baldwin, pudgy, bumbling Conservative leader. Other lucky candidates made up the following skeleton House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Oh, Ramsay, Dear | 10/26/1931 | See Source »

...Though most of the inhabitants speak bastard Italian, Corsica is not a colony or a dependence but a full Department of France. It sends Senators and Deputies to Paris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Again Caviglioli | 9/7/1931 | See Source »

Heading the counsel for the defense were venerable, silver-haired, massive Garrett William McEnerney, once Jim Flood's personal attorney, and stocky, nervous Theodore Roche. Their arguments were that the first Mrs. Flood would not have adopted her husband's bastard, that Jim Flood would have given an adopted daughter all the affection and kindness which Mrs. Gavin said proved she was his real daughter. Thus did they refute old Flood retainers, coachmen, gardeners, nurses & neighbors who testified he had often called Constance May "My baby," "My little daughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Jim Flood's Girl | 8/17/1931 | See Source »

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