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...with congratulations at 7 a. m. First to arrive were Prince and Princess Chichibu. He, as the Emperor's eldest brother, has played for years the thankless role of heir presumptive. Relieved of this by the babe, brisk Chichibu and his beauteous Princess, who have had to remain childless lest they have a son before the Emperor, appeared radiant. For the Army spoke Lieut.-General Sadao Araki, War Minister and possible future Dictator of Japan. "The foundations of our Empire," cried he, "are now based more firmly than ever! The birth of a Crown Prince shows that the prosperity...
Under Awakened Magyar Point 20 every wedded couple would be expected to have a minimum of five children. For every child lacking after a statutory number of years, the couples' basic income tax would be upped 50%. Thus a childless couple would pay 350 pengös of income tax for every 100 pengös paid by a husband and wife of the same income with five children...
Then she went back. There were no vamps in the fire houses, there was scarcely a fireman in San Francisco who could harness a horse. In 1925 she suffered a stroke, spent her last four years speechless in Dante Sanatorium. July 20, 1929 she died, childless. Her fireman's badge was buried with...
...Cormack, produced by Morris Green and Frank McCoy) is a domestically salacious trifle purporting to show how husbands and wives talk about procreation. Plot: a wife wants a baby, her husband does not. To soften him the wife invites as guests a couple who have a baby. The childless husband takes an interest but keeps his attitude. Meanwhile the father-husband fears his child has stolen his wife's love, receives an invitation from the childless wife to father her baby. He agrees, then reneges because he wants the other husband to suffer as he has. Finally the childless...
...came from his father who was for years American Telephone & Telegraph's chief traveling auditor. While still an undergraduate Bill Young published financial articles, invented a new type of slide rule. His method of calculating security values involves the use of 30 separate ratios. Now 32, married but childless, he lives on swank Sutton Place, uses his yacht Arab as a summer home...