Word: dad
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unorthodox mission, but the spry, bearded old pastor had never let custom stand in his way. For nine years, from 1928 to 1937, he had preached to noon-hour crowds in the downtown financial district, become known as "The Bishop of Wall Street." Now he became "Dad" Hall, the telephone preacher, and as word of his number spread, he got dozens of calls a day. Each caller heard a plainspoken talk on Christian verities...
Occasionally, a practical joker gave the number to an unsuspecting friend. It made no difference to Dad Hall, or to the volunteer assistants who came to help him. Even the drunks listened. "A bar is a bar to heaven and a gate to hell," Hall would tell them, "and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise." Homeless down & outers came to his mission for help; a light burned in the window all night. And the telephone kept ringing...
David, 17, asked, "When do we start, Dad...
...professors a chamber pot for Christmas 1885, and was promptly expelled. He had lost interest in school anyway; he had his eye on the puny San Francisco Examiner, which his politicking father had taken over to get himself a Democratic party mouthpiece. One day Willie wrote his dad, newly appointed to the U.S. Senate, to ask for "our miserable little sheet...
...late Frederic C. Dumaine, ironhanded boss of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, Frederic C. ("Buck") Dumaine Jr. referred to himself as "Dad's errand boy." Last week 48-year-old Buck Dumaine got a more impressive title. The New Haven's board of directors elected him to his late father's job as president and board chairman of the $429.6 million road...