Word: daughter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week moved an ugly squabble which has long rent the Angelus Temple of Mrs. Aimee Semple McPherson (TIME, Jan. 18). Moody Sister Aimee, beset by fears that people are trying to wrest control of the Temple from her, has succeeded in estranging her mother Mrs. Minnie ("Ma") Kennedy, her daughter Roberta...
Compounded of jealousies and cross-accusations as to what who had said about whom, the quarrel got into court because Daughter Roberta thought she had been slandered. Attorney Andrews, she said, had publicly stated that Sister Aimee had been "threatened, intimidated, coerced and blackmailed"-presumably by her daughter. For this Daughter Roberta demanded $150,000 damages from her mother's counsel...
With tears, sneers, shouts and two swoons (by Sister Aimee), the case was argued, no one sticking very long to the main point. After brief deliberation, Judge Clarence Kincaid decided that Daughter Roberta had been slandered $2,000 worth, warned everyone concerned against continuing "such warfare." The advice was not heeded. This week Sister Aimee, like Father Divine (see above), was to appear again in court. This time she is defendant in a $1,080,000 slander suit brought by Sister Rheba. Since the line-up of witnesses will be about the same, the anti-Aimee faction took hope from...
...first time to be honored on his 5gth birthday, the second to receive an honorary degree from Harvard-he maintained a controlled silence about politics that was exceptional among literary exiles,,extraordinary in view of the anti-Nazi activities of his brother Heinrich, his son Klaus and daughter Erika. Sometimes he said he kept silent to protect his German readers. Sometimes, when reporters got him to the point of discussing Hitler or his own status as an exile, he was checked by shrewd, matter-of-fact, English-speaking Frau Mann, who hovered near, adroitly answered for him. In voluntary exile...
What Sir John had not anticipated was that his old friend, famed archeologist Professor Tennant, and his beautiful young daughter Lyn would take a fancy to the Hestia and go along as passengers. The professor and the captain liked each other's philosophizing. In mid-Atlantic the Hestia hit a hurricane, sent out an SOS intercepted by a Cunard liner with Sir John aboard. During the black hours before the liner reached the battered Hestia, the bosun went overboard, the chief engineer died, the professor's daughter found out the sullen first mate was not a gentleman...