Word: fathered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...enclosed letter is written in the hope that you will publish it. Henry D. Perky was my father, and I have long resented the ill-considered way in which his good name has been used...
...twelve when shredded wheat was born, and worked and played in father's laboratory. I grew up under the influence of his enthusiasms, worked in every department of his factory, made some inventions of my own, and in 1920 invented Muffets. Now I am, myself, conservatively but with great hopes, introducing what I consider the first new departure since my father's in the line of popular ''cereals...
...Thus the possibilities. Meanwhile, Banker John W. O'Leary, definitely suggested for leadership of the businessmen's group, remains a probability. Born in Chicago (1875), he is the son of an able ironmaster, to whose business he succeeded. He has been president of the O'Leary company since his father's death. Last week he became president also of Chicago Trust Co. In 1916, while president of the Chicago Association of Commerce, he organized, within 48 hours, the largest of the nation's pre-War preparedness parades. In 1925-26 he was president of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce...
...father and mother came to court and testified that they had had him pow-wowed 15 times before he was ten years old. Said Babulla Blymyer, his mother: "Yes, John was hexed. But who done it? You can't tell that. There's so many witches around...
Said Emmanuel Blymyer, his father: "Dere was de old time and now's de new time. In de old time, nobody had no learnin'. Now in de new time, children...