Word: fathers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...side of the thinning-maned Lion came a wide variety of men. notable examples of how the great debate crossed party lines. To lead the group on the floor came Missouri's Bennett Clark, still remembering how his father, Speaker Champ Clark, fought and distrusted another World War President; Wisconsin's La Follette, North Dakota's Nye and Frazier,. Michigan's Vandenberg, Idaho's Clark, West Virginia's Holt, Washington's Bone, North Carolina's Reynolds, California's historic Isolationist Hiram Johnson...
...stood and read his piece, shifting continually from foot to foot, some among his hearers remembered his father, who died in 1933. Charles Lindbergh Sr., of Minnesota, was one of 56 Congressmen (50 in the House, six in the Senate) who voted against declaring war in 1917. Outwardly cold, privately devoted Father Lindbergh wrote on Feb. 4, 1917: "Charles is fifteen today. He does not allow me to forget that, but I would not have forgotten it anyway, for this is a serious time. The world has gone...
...Some of his few intimates insisted before & after he spoke that Charles Lindbergh is for shipping arms and airplanes to the Allies. If he expected his speech to be so interpreted, he was notably naive. It was as the son of his father that he said...
Heading the list of line prospects and appearing on paper as the outstanding lineman on the squad is Bob Fisher, a nineteen year old Andover graduate whose father coached Harvard from 1919 to 1925. Fisher is a tackle, tipping the scales at 193 pounds...
Palestine's troubles this summer shattered the eucalyptus-shaded calm of Tabgha Hospice. Tourists kept away, and times became lean for businesslike Father Täpper. Worse, he had a cancer, was operated on at Tiberias. Last month Father Tapper made ready to retire to the land where he was born some 60 years ago. World War I he had escaped. Last week Father Täpper was due in Cologne, in his native Rhineland, to rest his old bones-just as the French and German guns began their restless muttering along the Western Front...