Word: daughter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sellout. Far & away the biggest-and most worrisome-event in Harry Truman's holiday week was a concert at Constitution Hall. The artist: Soprano Margaret Truman. In all paternal pride, the President wanted his daughter's Washington debut to be an unspoiled success-and hers alone. He did his best to keep out of the spotlight...
Socially, the concert was dazzling. The hall, for the first time this season, was a sellout. But Washington critics were tougher than any others have been with the President's daughter. "Most disappointing," said the Post. Said the Daily News: "Margaret's not equipped for serious concert work." Next day, interviewed on the radio by Secretary of the Treasury Snyder's daughter, Drucie, Margaret Truman reported: "Poor Daddy was sitting there quite nervous." But after the first few numbers, she said, he calmed down and started beaming...
...even though this time he was Mississippi's ill-famed Senator Theodore G. Bilbo. In the bill providing $540 million for interim aid to Europe and China, they appropriated $12,500 to be divided equally between Bilbo's son, Lieut. Colonel Theodore G. Bilbo, A.U.S., and his daughter, Mrs. Jessie Forrest Bilbo Smith, of Poplarville, Miss...
Elizabeth Coles, his wife, to whom he had been married for 25 years, died in 1927, leaving him childless. He married a widow with three children-Katherine Boyce Tupper, the daughter of a minister. He performed a soldier's between-wars chores, teaching in officers' schools, doing routine military housekeeping, and, wherever he happened to be, cultivating the vegetable gardens which were his hobby. In 1937 he was in command of the sth Infantry Brigade at desolate Vancouver Barracks, Wash., when three Russian aviators startled the world by flying from Europe to America over the North Pole. They...
...time it produced Prince Victor Emmanuel, the 900-year-old House of Savoy was wearing a bit thin. The Prince's father, King Umberto I, decided to improve the breed by marrying off little (5 ft. 3 in.) Victor Emmanuel.to booming, strapping (6 ft.) Elena, daughter of Montenegro's peasant king, Nicholas. In his 46 years as King of Italy, and sometime ruler of Albania and Ethiopia, Victor Emmanuel confirmed his father's early suspicion that there was room for improvement...