Word: fathers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...looked worried when her father observed: "I have withstood a great demonstration, feasting in Washington, late nights, early mornings, and hectic middles...
...Ishbel, because her father is 'proud to be a radical' was snubbed [in Washington]. Of course, there were the official dinners and the assignment of embassy equeries as her constant companions-but the young men assigned were not of the attractive types."-Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr. in Manhattan's tabloid Daily Mirror...
...told you it would not be a surprise"-to reporters asking what birthday present she would give her father. The "surprise" was triple: 1) a bowl of water with four toy boats, ticketed For naval parity; 2) a toy terrier-I am Scottie too; 3) a slate-Let us reckon up our debits and credits...
From this idleness aviation rescued him. Chancellor Elmer Ellsworth Brown of New York University was trying to raise money for an aviation course. He asked Mr. Guggenheim to write a money-getting letter. Mr. Guggenheim wrote the letter, showed it to his father for any suggestions that might improve it. So effective was the appeal that it immediately "sold" Daniel Guggenheim on aviation, resulted in the elder Guggenheim himself establishing the now famed $2,500,000 Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics. It was as president of this Fund that Harry Guggenheim met Charles Augustus Lindbergh just before...
...Real name: Antonia Merce. Born in Buenos Aires, she is one of the few Argentinians who have pure Spanish blood. Her father, onetime premier danseur at the Madrid Opera, was a Castilian; her mother an Amlulasian...