Word: fathered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...small pontifical State," observed Osservatore Romano (Papal daily) last week, "is already supernational, free, independent and neutral by its own nature, and not by virtue of accords among other powers. . . . The Holy Father will know well how to defend the Church's liberty in the new order of things...
Died. Edward Laurence Doheny Jr., 36, of Los Angeles, carrier of the famed "little black bag" from his father to one-time Secretary of the Interior Fall during the Elk Hills phase of the conniving that caused the oil scandals; when shot by his insane secretary, who afterward killed himself; in Los Angeles...
Died. Kit Carson Jr., 70, of Taos, N. Mex., son of the famed frontiersman; in La Junta. Col. He was buried in Taos beside his father, who died...
Died. Admiral the Honorable Sir Edmund Robert Fremantle, 92, of London, "Father of the British Navy"; in London. Admiral Fremantle was the only surviving flag officer born in the reign of William IV. He entered the Royal Navy in 1849, serving on the three-decker Queen. His grandfather, Thomas Fremantle, captained the Neptune at Trafalgar (1805) under Lord Nelson. His son, Admiral Sir Sydney Robert Fremantle, retired last year. Admiral Sir Edmund's snowy whiskers often festooned a royal carriage at the opening of Parliament. On his gist birthday he criticized the wary tactics of Admiral Jellicoe at Jutland...
Born in dismal Hoboken, N.J., in 1864, Stieglitz went to private and public schools and to the College of the City of New York. Following his father's wishes, he studied mechanical engineering. But photochemistry and photography allured him, and he turned to these subjects, receiving a thorough Germanic induction at the Berlin Polytechnic School and the University of Berlin (1888-90). Returning to Manhattan, he practiced photo-engraving for three years, experimented in three-color work, married Emmeline Obermeyer of New York. Then, in 1895, at 31, he "retired...