Word: fathers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gompers could speak from the grave, he undoubtedly would tell his heirs in U. S. Labor to get shut of the Wagner Act, of Federal Wage and Hour regulation, of all dependence upon courts, politics and politicians. Until he died in 1924, the founding father of the American Federation of Labor preached that unions should trust first & last in their own economic might, never in transitory laws and governments...
...Senior year at Kent in 1935 Coleman held down a tackle slot on one of Father Sill's greatest teams, and earned all-state ranking, which he describes as "pure bunk." Last year Coleman was a comparatively unknown center until the middle of October, when he was shifted to guard. A week and a half later, with Dave Glueck on the injured list, Coleman started his first Varsity game against Cornell...
...France's 50,000 Catholic "regular" priests (in religious orders), 8,000 were mobilized last week. Leading in numbers were Jesuits, Christian Brothers and the peaceable Franciscans. Typical fighting fathers: Franciscan Aviation Captain Boigerolles; Pere Godefroy of the White Fathers, second lieutenant in the Senegalese sharpshooters; Jesuit Father Carre, in the tank corps...
...evenings in the machine-shop in his basement, just tinkering, but lately he has had no time for that and it has been taken over by his 16-year-old son Richard. Last summer Richard built himself a one-lung automobile in the basement shop. Said his father, with the characteristic wrinkled grin that makes his eyes disappear: "A good mechanic's job-and I didn't help him." His other son, Robert, 27, is a Chrysler research engineer. No seeker for a college degree, he went to work for Chrysler after high school. "I gave...
When every military plane young Mechanic Tommy Grayson (Gordon Oliver) works on crashes, G-men arrest him on the day he is to be married to Show Girl Gail (Arleen Whelan), force the plant to close. Tommy's father, mild-eyed, poker-faced Major Grayson ( Charles Grapewin), native as a corn shuck, sets out to prove him innocent. By such slightly off-the-record stunts as burglarizing the plane factory and carrying off Tommy's gauges to check, breaking into a neighbor's house and rifling his closet, the Major sleuths out a sabotage gang, finds most...