Word: fathers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Anent your statement ". . . his [Lindbergh's] father, who died in 1933" [TIME, Sept. 25], I well remember that Charles Jr., an up-and-coming aviator, flew over the Lindbergh homestead and dropped his father's ashes several years before he made his well known solo flight to Paris...
This son of a mail-carrier father, who went off to college with a $5 bill in his pocket, who sings There's a Gold Mine in the Sky and Mother Machree on campaign platforms, would have been jobless on Dec. 12, if he had not inherited Senator Logan's seat. No Kentucky Governor may succeed himself. But Chandler's aide, Lieutenant Governor Keen Johnson, Democratic nominee for the Governorship in the Nov. 7 elections, is a 20-to-1 choice over Republican Nominee King Swope. So Chandler had no unemployment problem, for he could resign...
...charitarian rich man, John D. Rockefeller Jr., it was a busy week, with not only charity but a ceremony attendant on the presentation by the French Government of the Diplome de Grand Prix to Radio City Music Hall's Rockettes. Meanwhile, at one of his father's endowments, the University of Chicago, President Robert Maynard Hutchins announced that Chicago, would gladly take over Oxford's Rhodes scholars during...
...three days before the Hitler "peace ultimatum'' had been delivered and it was just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain had virtually turned down the Hitler, terms in advance (see above). The "Father, of the House," an M.P. now for almost 50 years, thought Mr. Chamberlain's rejection a bit hasty. "I think it is very important," he said, "that we should not come to a too hurried conclusion." He did not want Great Britain to make any more enemies, particularly of Italy and Russia. He was even willing to keep an open mind about the possible impossibility...
...Unexpected Father" is the delightful story of three young people-Auer, Dennis O'Keefe, and Shirley Ross-trying to keep Hollywood's new gaglette, Baby Sandy, out of the clutches of an orphan asylum. Sandy goes goo-goo and the audience goes ga-ga and so the picture goes humorously along...