Word: fathers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...father, writing to me from Southwestern China, has in custody a white girl, unable to speak a word of English but aware that she is the daughter of an American father and a Russian mother. For nearly 20 years she has been a slave, bought and sold among various Chinese families as necessity dictated. From Mukden, her presumable birthplace, where she was first placed in an orphanage, she has been carried over North and Central China to her present haven near the Burmese border. Undoubtedly, along with my own parents and all the population of unconquered China, she has endured...
Also that year in Owosso, 100 miles from Harbor Beach, little Tommy Dewey, aged 3, toddled about his Episcopalian father's home, unaware of religion or abstinence...
Churchill Brown Mehard raked through a personal inheritance so fast and thoroughly that in 1937 his family had him deposed as executor of his father's estate (estimated at $1,000,000). Before that he had been a Pittsburgh socialite, a hard-drinking World War major in the A. E. F. (gassed, twice cited for gallantry), a Brigadier General in the National Guard of Pennsylvania. In January 1938 he was glad to take an $8,000 job as city solicitor from his onetime law partner, Pittsburgh's Mayor Cornelius Decatur Scully. Last week cleft-chinned, big-beaked Churchill...
...Paris they are reading a novel about an undersexed brother who tries to keep his sisters from enjoying their love affairs. They are hustling to see Jean Cocteau's play involving a mother in love with her son, a son in love with the father's mistress, and a maiden aunt in love with the father. Spring, a week late, hit Paris with an intoxicating sequence of superb days. Out in the country, wheat, barley and oats looked good; the 1,500,000 vineyard owners had their spring shoots in the ground; fishermen were beginning to pull...
...longest overwater hop (from Newport Beach, Calif. 28 miles to Catalina Island) in the same year. Because aviators were few, the return was handsome. Most of it went into the factory. Because publicity for Martin-and he got plenty-was publicity for Martin planes, the business flourished. Even Father Martin (who died in 1935) admitted that Glenn had been on the right track all along...