Word: fathers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There is a personal postscript to this. Christmas Eve 1922 my father was called to the telephone. A friend asked whether he might bring along for dinner a German here on a lecture tour and stranded on Christmas Eve with no place...
...figures, and this priceless asset the House of Bernadotte de Ponte Corvo has skilfully conserved for more than 100 years under five bourgeois and uniformly popular kings: Karl XIV, his only son Oscar I, his eldest son Karl XV who left no male heir, and his brother Oscar II, father of the present Gustaf...
There were some bad accidents in the mines, and Earl Jones did not like the way the Zanesville morning Times-Recorder and evening Signal (both owned by Father William Oliver, Sons Orville Beck and Henry Clay Littick) reported what happened. Nor did he like it when the Litticks played up several suits against him-one for damage allegedly done by his mine wastes to adjoining lands...
When her postmaster father, appointed by Lincoln, died, she filled out his term, was officially designated for the job by Rutherford B. Hayes in 1877. Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor machination of local politico has interrupted her service since...
...Mitford, sister-in-law of No. 1 British Fascist Sir Oswald Mosley. Soon after World War II began she took German citizenship by special dispensation of the Führer, then contracted double pneumonia and last week was convalescent in Munich. "I am a very sad man," groaned her father, Lord Redesdale, in London recently. "The King's enemies are the enemies of every honest Englishman...