Word: childing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...weather and the [San Francisco] Fair. Her only lapse came when she picked up a newspaper and read that the President had issued a plea to the A. F. of L. for labor unity. 'Dear Franklin,' smiled Mrs. Roosevelt in the manner of an adult discussing a child, 'he's trying again...
...have increased from fewer than 4,000,000 to over 6,200,000-almost as many people as live in London or New York City. The Swedes have devoted their whole toil and savings during this period to peace and social progress, eschewing the waste of war. As a child, Gustaf V was sent to a Stockholm private school and his then reigning uncle, King Karl XV, was engaged at this time in shepherding a gradual constitutional change, whereby effective political power in Sweden later passed safely from the Crown-which had enjoyed autocratic sway-into the hands...
Born. To Natalie Cantor Metzger, 22, second of Eddie Cantor's five daughters, and Joseph Lewis Metzger, 24, Hollywood antique dealer, a son, their first child. Eddie Cantor's first grandson; in Hollywood, Calif. Weight: 8 Ibs. 9 oz. Name: Michael. In Boston, Grandfather Cantor, 46, dashed back on the stage in a short skirt and golden wig he had been wearing in impersonation of Shirley Temple, popped his doorknob eyes, screamed his glad news to 5,000 cheering customers...
Divorced. Betty Grable, 22, muffin-pretty, blonde cinemactress; from Jackie ("The Kid") Coogan, 24, once famed child cinemactor; in Los Angeles. Grounds: cruelty...
...this was such good news that he loosed the floodgates. He ruled that for the remainder of the 1939 Fair (except weekends & holidays) babies in arms or in carriages would be admitted without paying 25? admission. ("Of course," one of Banker Gibson's assistants hastily added, "if the child has a beard, I think we can ask payment...