Word: childlessness
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...interest to his wife and daughter. In 1926 they realized $3,000,000 by selling out to a banking group. President then and chairman now is a blue-eyed, bulb-nosed Iowa Scot named Walter Kenneth Mclntosh who has been in the company since 1902. Married but childless, he commutes from suburban Oak Park, draws a salary of $27,000. '"Liquid" employes call him "Mr. Mac." Under Mr. Mac, "Liquid" came through Depression with flying colors, lost money only in 1932. In 1930, it made $1,786,000 on sales of $13,626,000. Last year it made...
...save himself and his son from starvation, a poor man leases his wife for three years to a childless rich man. She fulfills the contract, bears the rich man a son, then returns to her poverty, her heart torn between her two children...
Unmarried No. 1 Nazi Hitler and childless No. 2 Nazi Göring, both tireless in exhorting the German people to breed children, were again set an example last week by the No. 3 Nazi, waspish little Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels. When she married Dr. Goebbels in December 1931, Mrs. Magda Quandt already had a son. In the ensuing five years Dr. & Mrs. Goebbels have had a son and three daughters, the latest last week. While his wife was in labor with his fourth child, Der Angrip, personal newsorgan of Reichspropagandaminister Goebbels, came out last week with a powerful series...
...from over. In August 1935, six weeks before her trial, she had announced that she had given birth to a son, "a gift from God in my time of distress." Remarkable to newshawks was Mrs. Muench's child-bearing at the age of 42 after 23 years of childless married life. When Dr. Muench, who is not an obstetrician, declared he was the attending physician at the birth, the press began to investigate. Soon they found an unwed Pennsylvania servant girl whose baby had been born in St. Louis and taken from her for adoption by unknown clients...
...chief during the War when his father served as President of the Naval Consulting Board under Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin Roosevelt. During those years Charles Edison supervised the manufacture of war materials at the Edison plant. He lives quietly with his wife (they are childless) in a large stone residence in Llewellyn Park, a private residential section in West Orange. Hard by is the home of his mother, Thomas Edison's second wife, now Mrs. Edward Everett Hughes. Mrs. Hughes publicly supported Alf Landon while her son was supporting President Roosevelt. At 46, with his heavy black...