Word: fathers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Gustav Stresemann was born in Berlin in 1878, the son of a beer merchant. Father Stresemann had higher plans for young Gustav than the beer business. Scrimped pfennigs sent him to Berlin and Leipzig universities, found him. a good job in an association of chocolate manufacturers, paved the path that brought Gustav Stresemann to the Reichstag...
Last week Prince Peter of Montenegro arrived in England with his fair wife Violet Emily Wagner, British-born music hall dancer whom he married five years ago. In London he smiled while she pushed through a crowd of welcoming potentates, to grab, hug and kiss her father, a onetime London detective sergeant. Said the prince, beaming upon his wife: "There is no woman who can equal the English blond, and I have chosen the best...
...Encouraged by thoughts of the well-armed "ironsides" division, six other Nationalist generals joined them. 3) General Ho Ying-chäing, one of President Chiang's most valued assistants, suddenly resigned from six important government positions in the Nationalist Government "to attend the funeral of his father." Foreign Minister Wang's gloom was slightly alleviated late in the week when loyal Nationalist troops succeeded in checking the advance of Chang Fa-k'uei, and the " General Ho announced that he did not mean to resign permanently, he merely wanted two months' leave of absence...
...California ranch was a failure. Then there was opportunity to make her U.S. debut in Shakespeare, at San Francisco's Cali fornia Theatre. While she studied English, Ralph Modjeski played her Chopin's nocturnes on the piano. He had studied music under Josef Hofmann's father, and his playing brought out Shakespeare's poetical qualities for his mother. Her leading man was the late Maurice Barrymore. His three children, now famed players Ethel, Lionel and John, would crawl on adolescent Ralph Modjeski's knees, and he would dandle them up and down. For theatrical reasons...
Unquestioned was that social Manhattan position into which Marjorie de Loosey ("Bubbles") Oelrichs was born. Her father, Charles de Loosey Oelrichs, though not well off, came from a wealthy family, was a brother of potent Manhattan Financier Hermann Oelrichs...