Word: born
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...born, the son of many generations of American farmers, on cleared land in the foothills of the Cumberlands, 100 miles from the nearest railroad. As a lad he rafted his father's logs 200 miles down the Cumberland River to market...
...picture's 80 minutes they waddle about with normal two-year-old awkwardness and silence, blowing horns, tumbling over cribs, pounding a piano, guzzling milk and sucking thumbs in the familiar quinsome way. For the rest of the show they might just as well not have been born...
...endangered in a country at war. It is the fault of the American people if they don't know enough to stay at home and to keep their money in domestic pockets. Even Washington seems dubious of foreign entanglements, as they have recently forbidden American representatives to marry foreign-born women...
Mogul is a remarkable young man who was born 24 years ago in London, but was educated in Baltimore. He clams that his powers of telepathy were discovered when he was a very young child, going to grade school. In class, he would anticipate the teacher's question, raise his hand, and read the answer right out of the teacher's mind. Later on in life, Baltimore City College, he would read the mind of the Phi Beta Kappa students during the exams and thereby obtain a high grade without any studying...
...Iowa born, John D. M. Hamilton prepared at Phillips Academy in Massachusetts. Charles P. Taft, Ohio-born, chief among Governor Landon's advisers, prepared at Taft school in Connecticut. Son of the 27th President of the United States, Charles Taft was initiated into Beta Theta Pi and Phi Delta Phi at Yale. He married the daughter of Ing Watch Company's president, fought for the United States a year in France, then earnestly fought for Y. M. C. A. and goal government in his native cinnati. Father of six children, Charles Taft will serve as a model for the figure...