Word: fathers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roosevelts are quick to become parents. Franklin and Eleanor had been married 13 mos., 27 days when Anna arrived. Their children, with one exception, have been quicker. Anna bore her first 9 mos., 20 days after marriage. Elliott became a father 10 mos., i day after his first marriage, 9 mos., 17 days after his second. Franklin Jr. fathered Franklin III a year and 20 days after he married Ethel du Pont. Only James lagged behind. He had been a husband 21 months before he became a father...
...completed in 1931 is a cluster of three tiny tea houses where Ambassador and Mrs. Grew can make the touchiest Japanese patriot feel at home. Mrs. Grew has the background for it: her grandfather was that Commodore Perry who once opened Japan to the western world in 1853; her father was a teacher in Japan, and she was born there...
Joseph Grew was born in 1880 of a line of Boston bankers, was predestined to be one himself.* From his doting father he wangled a post-collegiate trip abroad, succumbed to "the vivid colors and majestic smells and big gun shooting" in the East He also caught a fever in the Malay States, lost his hearing in one ear and while he was ill in India met a helpful U. S. consul. Then & there he determined to be a diplomat. He flunked his first examination, but managed to get a clerkship in Cairo. In 1904, his star began to rise...
Beard's great-grandfather was a Federalist, his grandfather a Whig and rebel Quaker who ran "a one-man church" and speculated in Western lands; his father was a "copper-riveted, rock-ribbed, Mark Hanna, true-blue" Republican who prospered as building contractor, ran a bank, read the classics, raised his family on a farm to develop their backbone. At 18 Charles Beard owned a country weekly, the graduation gift of his father, ran it at a profit for four years. At Methodist DePauw College his extracurricular activities included reporting for a Republican newspaper, electioneering for a Republican Senator...
...Beard published his Economic Interpretation of the Constitution. Probably the dullest book of sensational history ever written, it infuriated conservative historians and editors by documenting the shocking lucidity with which the Founding Fathers wrote the Constitution in their own economic interest. Newspapers screamed that Beard was a "hyena." Ex-President Taft (whom Beard calls his heaviest critic-"by tonnage") damned it in a special speech. High schools banned the book; public libraries put it on the restricted shelf. Nicholas Murray Butler sputtered that his derelict professor of politics was aping "the crude, immoral and unhistorical teaching of Karl Marx." Charles...