Word: fathers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Federal Judge Grover M. Moscowitz, father of four Moscowitzes, glared indignantly from his bench as he heard a chemist's report on the contents of Bonomo's candy: "rodents' hairs, rodent excreta, larvae, fragments of human hair, bits of paper, bits of mouse pelts and fragments of glass." Sample pieces contained as high as 205 insect fragments, 204 mouse hairs. The Moscowitz sentence: $600 fine (legal maximum) and three years on probation for the filth purveyor...
Leaving Paris for Germany last week was tall, well-built, 21-year-old Grand Duke Vladimir, who two months ago inherited through the death of his father, Grand Duke Cyril, the title of pretender to the extinct Russian throne. Ostensibly "Tsar" Vladimir was going to Germany to visit his sister, the Grand Duchess Kira, wife of former Kaiser Wilhelm's grandson, Prince Louis Ferdinand, remembered in the U. S. chiefly as a onetime Ford automobile factory worker. Actually, bigger things than a mere family reunion were...
President Edsel Ford explained his company's traditional aloofness with a 1903 anecdote: "My father inquired of one of the officers of the [A.M.A.] association if it were possible to join this association. ... He was told, I understand, he had best go out and manufacture some motor cars and gain a reputation and prove that he wasn't a fly-by-night...
...Means, 59, notorious national rascal, onetime Secret Service operator and private detective; of a heart attack; in Springfield, Mo., where he had been taken from Leavenworth Penitentiary for an operation. Born in North Carolina, Gaston Means at ten rode around the country eavesdropping on prospective jurors for his attorney-father. He joined the William J. Burns Detective Agency in 1910, then became a German spy, was later tried and acquitted of murdering a client. When the Bureau of Investigation hired him for War fraud investigations, he helped block them instead. Discharged, he supplied the Senate's Teapot Dome committee...
...Meredith '42 followed the tradition of his father, a former Crimson star and Olympic champion, when he sprinted to win the 300 yard run by a good five yards, after trailing only 20 yards from the tape. Meredith's time was 35:2. Fred Ulen '39 and Holmes of the Huskies were clocked...