Word: daughter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Proudest father in Washington's official family is Secretary of War Harry Hines Woodring, a bachelor until four years ago. Proudest mother is Secretary Woodring's pretty young wife, Helen Coolidge Woodring, daughter of Massachusetts' ex-Sena-tor Marcus Allen Coolidge, who bore him their third child last February. Last week proud Father Woodring requested every officer and enlisted man in the U. S. Army and every member of the Civilian Conservation Corps to write a letter to his mother on Mother...
...families within the space of one generation could provide such a fertile subject for a chronicle as did the home circle of Woodrow Wilson, which is portrayed in this work by daughter. Living in a period when American home life could still be called a national institution, before the movies, the automobile and other phenomena of modern life had began to exert their disrupting influence, the Wilsons had remarkable qualities even for their age, which should make this book as fascinating for the general reading public as it is valuable for future historians...
Woodrow Wilson's tremendous success is the most outstanding of these factors contributing to the interest of the narrative. His rise from a college professorship to the presidency of Princeton, thence to the governorship of New Jersey, and finally to the White House, enables his daughter to make this otherwise simple family story a vivid portrayal of the disturbing effects of fame and a public career on their quiet home life. This theme, although rarely dealt with in the past, is a dramatic one, and the writer treats it capably with a touch of humor and a strange note...
Producer Fanchon, 42, was Fanny Wolf, daughter of a Los Angeles clothing store proprietor. She studied piano; her brother Mike (Marco) fiddle. Together they entertained at lodge parties and picnics, graduated to a dinner show in Tait's famed San Francisco restaurant. Fanchon & Marco embellished their act with other specialties, began to play theatre dates in their spare time. When the demand grew they organized a second company, coalesced their troupe in a musical show Sunkist which they took to Broadway. Two weeks later the Southern Pacific Railroad accepted Marco's note for $2,800 to transport...
...Nancy Steele is Missing" which stars Victor McLaglen and Walter Connolly is a depressing though well acted picture. Based on the kidnapping of the daughter of a wealthy New York industrialist, the film covers a period of twenty years during which McLaglen, the kidnapper, is sent to prison for a minor crime...