Word: bern
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Born. To George Isaac Hughes, 96, Confederate veteran accepted by the American Medical Association as an authentic father (TIME, Nov. 11); and Libby Hill Hughes, 28; a daughter, Mary Gertrude; in New Bern, N. C. Their other child is Franklin Roosevelt Hughes, aged 17 months...
Last Monday Franklin Roosevelt welcomed Secretary of War Bern at a pre-luncheon appointment in the Executive Office of the White House. As they were in the midst of an amiable discussion, a Presidential secretary entered, put a slip of paper in the President's hands. It was a newsflash: the U. S. Supreme Court had just declared AAA unconstitutional, lock, stock & barrel (see p. 12). How President Roosevelt received this staggering piece of information was afterwards described by Secretary Dern...
There Franklin Roosevelt, technically like King George only an interested spectator, occupied the centre of the stage. Surrounded by the full Cabinet (saving Secretary Bern who is in the Philippines), half a dozen Canadian officials and 17 functionaries of the State and other Governmental departments, the President shared his desk with the two principals. Prime Minister King and Secretary Hull. Flashlights coruscated, cameras clicked. Mr. King put on his horn-rimmed spectacles, Mr. Hull, very proud and erect, put his black-ribboned pince-nez on his nose, pens scratched internationally and a new treaty opening new canals of trade...
Year and a half ago George Isaac Hughes, New Bern, N. C. farmer, married for the second time. The oldest (63) and the youngest (33) offspring of his long first marriage marveled. Early this year Farmer Hughes's 27-year-old wife bore a son, promptly named Franklin Roosevelt Hughes. Doctors investigated and last week published in the American Medical Association's Journal the first certificate of its kind-that Farmer Hughes, 95, indubitably fathered Franklin Roosevelt Hughes...
...novels on the same subject. Subtitled "The Days of Ignorance," it is an exhaustive 500-page picture of upper-class Europe in the decades before the War, with particular emphasis on those forces within society that were even then laying the ground for conflict. The emotional life of Julian Bern, precociously intelligent son of an English consul in Italy, began with a love affair with Zena, a Russian princess, whose noble family, perverse, gifted, incredibly wealthy, gave evidence of the fatal decadence of Russian rulers. One of Zena's aunts, under the influence of religious charlatans who were then...