Word: daughters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Industrialist John C. Virden, who had resigned his job in the Commerce Department because his daughter Euphemia had a job at Tass (TIME, May 31), heard some kind words last week. Commerce Secretary Charles Sawyer asked him to come back. Harry Truman added his blessing, said Virden was being sacrificed to "political expediency." With that, Virden withdrew his resignation, went back to the top desk in Commerce's Office of Industry Cooperation...
...Owned by Alicia Patterson, daughter of the late Joseph Medill Patterson, founder of the New York Daily News...
...Daughter of Metropolitan Opera Manager Edward Johnson, Fiorenza was born in Florence, educated in Europe and the U.S. She speaks French and Italian fluently, finds both an asset in her barnstorming. "Did you know," she asked, "that there are 5,000 Italians in the Soo? They love to hear their language spoken...
Henry L. Mencken was very nearly a dead issue, in Baltimore. The daughter of his colored cook fatally stabbed her mother with-an ice pick and then set out for the Menckens'. Presently Mencken's brother August looked out his window and saw the daughter approaching, a bottle in each hand; he talked to her through,, the window, at the same time dialed police, who came on the double, nabbed her, and packed her off to a sanitarium. Mencken slept through everything...
Simply Dreadful. Miss Madeira, one of Washington's last New Dealers, thinks it "simply dreadful" that most of her students must come from "economic royalist" families.* Returning from vacation, the daughter of a West Virginia mine operator once told the headmistress: "My father likes everything about your school except your ideas...