Word: daughter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...elected president of the New City Council whose members were chosen by proportional representation to replace the old Tammany-controlled Board of Aldermen. All could have been dispatched much earlier. At 10:30 rooters demonstrating outside the Mayor's house were informed that the Mayor, his wife, his daughter Jean and son Eric had already gone to bed. A little later theatre crowds were able to hear and cheer the final unofficial figures: LaGuardia, 1,344,016; Mahoney, 889,591. It was the first time Tammany had ever had to bow to Reform twice running. It was the Fusion...
...Ethiopians, however, are different, and last week from his self-exile in Jerusalem the thin-faced, kinky-haired son of Haile Selassie, Crown Prince Asfa Wassan, wrote to Patriarch Amba Yoannes XIX of the Coptic Church, in Cairo, petitioning this venerable prelate for a divorce from Princess Holata-Israel, daughter of his father's most powerful chieftain, Ras Seyoum, who capitulated to the Italian invaders during their campaign...
...enterprising James Vincent Spadea was running the now extinct College Comics when in from the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts bounced Freelancer Jean Miller to sell him a cover illustration. She did not sell the cover, but a year later they were married. After mothering a son and daughter, she resumed her career by selling a sketch to Altmans' in 1929, soon had all the big New York department stores on her list, now is one of the best-paid freelancers on the Avenue...
...Success when the onetime Sand Hog married as his second wife a pretty Daughter of the American Revolution, Middle-Western Miss Fern Lombard. It was Success when the small, swarthy little emigrant returned to his native France and bought for $750,000 a princely chateau in Touraine, ordering its ancient vineyard grubbed up to make a golf course which proved that Charles Eugene Bedaux had been thoroughly amalgamated in the American Melting Pot. It was Success for Mr. & Mrs. Bedaux to disport themselves on the Riviera with a wealthy Mr. and Mrs. Herman Rogers, one of whose dashing friends...
...Titonka, Iowa, Mrs. Will Schutjer turned Daughter Patty, 4, over her knee. As her mother's hand fell, Patty held a can opener behind her. Mrs. Schutjer's hand was punctured...