Word: daughter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whatever may be the other distinctions of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, one is certainly a family quite as colorful as that of his late great cousin, Theodore. Last week the President's son Elliott was starting a Fort Worth radio chain, his son Franklin Jr. and Du Pont daughter-in-law were honeymooning in Europe, his son James was making an Indianapolis speech that was covered by Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt in her column "My Day," and the President's 82-year-old mother was sightseeing in Italy. None of their routine activities, however, constituted the President's major...
...Manhattan, Mayor LaGuardia, father by adoption of a young daughter, burst into a fine Italian rage, summoned his commissioners of police and correction and ordered one to set up a Sex Bureau like Chicago's, the other to do everything possible to keep all sex offenders locked up until their cases could receive a thorough psychological investigation. Roared the impetuous little mayor: "There are many legal loopholes through which these offenders can now escape full punishment for their crimes. But, God help the judge who turns one of these men loose if anything happens afterward...
...small cardboard box which Charles Cochran, a Tennessee barber, carried when he entered his New Market yard one evening last week contained his dead baby daughter, born three months premature at a hospital 18 miles away. The doctor had worked on her for an hour and a half; given up. Barber Cochran put her on a shelf in his smoke house for burial next day. Next afternoon when he opened the box the baby began to cry. Rushed back to the hospital, she lived for 24 hours, then died permanently...
Westbrook Pegler's ''Fair Enough" column appeared last week in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer with the following blast: "Genius has followed the election returns in the case of Mrs. John Boettiger, the President's daughter, for she also went journalistic after Mr. Roosevelt's first election and, within the last year, above all the thousands of professional newspaper women in the United States who need jobs by which to live, has been singled out as peculiarly qualified for sub-editorship on one of Mr. Hearst's newspapers." Mrs. Boettiger is women's editor...
...Still living are Thomas Alva Edison's second wife and their three children; one daughter by his first wife...