Word: fathered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hoover last year. A vice president of American Telephone & Telegraph Co. in charge of public relations, he plays a vigorous game of golf, sneaks off from his Long Island estate to New Hampshire or elsewhere to fish at the slightest provocation. For 13 years he was editor of his father's World's Work. From Canada. Regretfully last week President Hoover accepted the resignation of William Phillips, first U. S. Minister to Canada. Minister Phillips' excuse was better than most: to bring up his children in the U. S. Twenty-six years in foreign service had made...
...Calvert Round Table, an organization founded "to remove religious prejudice, and to foster among all our people respect for each other's sincere convictions, mutual confidence and good will." Speakers were President Abbott Lawrence Lowell of Harvard University, Rabbi Harry Levi of Boston's Temple Israel, Rev. Father Michael J. Ahern, S. J., of Weston College. Among conclusions reached by the seminar were: "That . . . sincere differences are matters of conscience between the individual soul and its creator, and, therefore, are entitled to universal respect. "That such agreement to disagree as to the fundamentals of their respective faiths...
...George's Church has intransigent traditions. One of Dr. Reiland's predecessors, Dr. William Stephen Rainsford (rector 1882-1906), had many a difference over church affairs with his senior warden John Pierpont Morgan (father of the present J. P.) and was finally forced to resign because of his too-liberal beliefs. After Dr. Rainsford's resignation, Financier Morgan presented him with a house in the country, near Ridgefield, Conn., where he still lives, snowy-haired, patriarchal, surrounded with trophies of his big-game hunts...
...heir to $120,000,000, grandson of Pittsburgh's late Steelman Benjamin Franklin Jones Jr. (Jones & Laughlin Co.); and one Adelaide Ingebretsen, 20, Willock household chambermaid, lately of Norway; at Oyster Bay, L. I. They met while he was tinkering in his machine shop on his father's East Norwich, L. I., estate. Said he: "My father had a good time getting where he is, and I can have a good time with Adelaide, too." Said she: "I liked him because he was so democratic with all the servants." Willock Sr. declared he would never countenance his daughter...
Died. Right Hon. Thomas Power ("Tay Pay") O'Connor, 81, "Father of the House of Commons"; of septic rheumatism; in London. For 44 years he held the same seat in Parliament; for 62 years he was a journalist. He was a wholehearted defender of the late great Thomas Parnell, imprudent Irish statesman. He gave George Bernard Shaw his first job as a music critic. Three weeks ago, illness forced him to suspend the last of his publications, T. P.'s & Cassell's Weekly (TIME...