Word: fathers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the sleuths caught a culprit redhanded. In his pocket were torn pieces of a letter and three marked $1 bills which they had mailed as bait. He was small. meek William Buckly, 57 and father of four, a $1,500-a-year file clerk in the White House mail room. Off to jail he went for six months...
...them, health officers last week tried to get their mother, a woman of 36, two years a widow, to clarify a complex situation. She had already had twelve children. Eight of those, ranging from 18 to two years of age, were living. She could not tell whether the father of her latest pair was one Luis Ersing, 24. or one Lanzarin Timoteo, 26, both jobless Spaniards. Luis' mother had been minding the babies after a fashion since they were born last month. And somebody had named them José de Jesus and Ana Maria...
Terrelita Fontaine Maverick, 12-year-old daughter of Representative Maury Maverick of Texas, fell from the first-floor fire escape of her father's Washington apartment, suffered a double fracture of the skull. Surgeons operated immediately, called her chances of recovery excellent...
Both Ersing and Timoteo claimed to be the twins' father; both wanted possession of them; both wanted to marry the widow; neither could legally do so, because both had wives, although neither knew where his wife was. At this stage of these unusual proceedings, the publicity-wise president of Chicago's board of health, Dr. Herman Niels Bundesen, father of six, came forward. He had samples of blood drawn from the men, mother and infants to make tests for paternity. A child inherits the characteristics of his parents' bloods in much the same manner as he inherits...
...ordinarily only one ovum can be fertilized. Ovaries may or may not alternate in ovulation. Occasionally two ova are expelled at the same time or very close together and, if both are fertilized, twins result. According to this possibility, four years ago a South Dakotan claimed that he was father of only one of his wife's twins, and a judge agreed with him. Said Dr. Bundesen last week: "Since the twins are unlike and one is smaller than the other, there is a possibility that they may have two fathers. But the fathers won't listen...