Word: daughter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Engineer Shadgen, a fiftyish native of Luxemburg, has had his ups & downs in engineering, at one time making as high as $150,000 a year. He credits his daughter Jacqueline, now 16, with really having the Fair idea first. In 1934, when she learned that the U. S. would be 150 years old in 1939, she asked her father if anyone was planning to celebrate. When he said no, she said: "Why don't you do it, Daddy?" That got him started. He picked the Flushing marshes because he lived near them, in Jackson Heights. He does not consider...
...sentimental share of Standard Oil Company of California and just about enough U. S. Treasury notes to pay his last taxes: $4,385,000 to New York State, $12,245,000 to the U. S. Treasury. Principal individual beneficiary under his will was Mrs. Margaret Strong de Cuevas, daughter of his eldest daughter Bessie, who died before Rockefeller divided his wealth among his children. Heroically singleminded, he showed no attachment to the things money can buy. He sold his New Jersey and Florida estates to his son for good cash prices, retained only $179,971 worth of miscellaneous property. Samples...
Describing her daughter in detail, she asked that anyone having the slightest clue to her probable whereabouts contact the family. Her husband and another daughter, Lucy, 15, who fled through a muddy field when Mary was seized, stood beside her. Brown spoke briefly, saying that he had nothing to add to his wife's words "except that I want her back...
...national defense, his favorite branch of the service is still amply capable of giving taxpayers their money's worth in a theatre. 2) Aside from its new sphere of operations, the Navy's chief interest remains what it always has been: romance, in this case between the daughter (Nancy Kelly) of a freighter's captain and a daring young engineer (Richard Greene*) on the submarine chaser S.C. 599, assigned to convoy the freighter through the Mediterranean. Result of the combination is to make Submarine Patrol, forcefully directed by John Ford, the season's liveliest adventure film...
Born. To King Farouk of Egypt, 18, and his 17-year-old wife, Queen Farida: a daughter, their first child; in Alexandria, a week after the usual false alarm. Name: Ferial (Arabic for "Light...