Word: fathered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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James Roosevelt, Harvard junior, second son of Franklin Delano Roosevelt has been practicing football in the afternoons and stumping Massachusetts for the Brown Derby in the evening. The evening that his father accepted the Democratic nomination for Governor of New York, James Roosevelt was speaking on the Democratic side of a bi-partisan radio program. His partner was Miss Sarah Jackson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Jackson, National Committeeman and Committeewoman of New Hampshire. Their opponents were Maxon H. Eddy, Yale football captain, and Miss Elizabeth Hughes, daughter of Charles Evans Hughes...
...father was not a coward and I believe him always to have put ideals above expediency...
Republicans said that she thus expressed what would be the most general result of her husband's speech. They took comfort from an editorial in LaFollette's Magazine by Youngest Senator LaFollette of Wisconsin, to whom Senator Norris is a political foster-father. Senator LaFollette flayed Nominee Hoover and said : "Governor Smith has made public declarations and definite commitments which are in substantial accord with the progressive view on water power, farm relief, the in junction in labor disputes, corruption in the public service and abuse of the presi dential power in Nicaragua." But he did not actually...
Curly-haired Buddy Rogers is a janitor's son. He does not know this because when his mother died the county supervisors refused to trust his rearing to his drunken father and put him in an orphanage. Years have passed and the father, sober enough now to hold the job he has gotten in a Princeton dormitory, gets word that his son has been given the thousand dollars he has sent and will arrive to enter Princeton about the same time as the letter. He is advised not to reveal his identity...
...student for all his Irish-Italian blood and romantic ancestry: his grandfather was favorite in Napoleon's body guard at St. Helena, and had the grim duty of protecting the dead Little Corporal's heart from voracious rats. But Arthur was a sweet-faced choirboy, beloved mascot of his father's band, successful candidate for a Leipzig Mendelssohn scholarship. Returned to London, he wrote cantatas, oratorios, 56 hymns (among them Onward Christian Soldiers), and also popular lyrics (The Lost Chord), and operetta-burlesque (Cox and Box). Victoria smiled on him, the masses adored...