Word: fathers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After Indianapolis, Charles Lindbergh flew out of public sight. He went back east to meet Anne Morrow Lindbergh and their two little Lindberghs, who arrived from perilous Europe to stay awhile with Grandmother Elizabeth Morrow at Englewood, N. J. But Father Lindbergh could not tarry long. He had 25 other visits to make before he could turn out a report for his admiring superior, Major General Henry H. Arnold. Expert Lindbergh in that document will have a chance to compare what he finds in the U. S. with what he found in Germany, Russia, England. His report...
...place demolished the tradition that only West Pointers can get big Army jobs. West Point produced not one of the three officers who were seriously considered. By President McKinley's dispensation Hugh Drum went directly into the Army as a second lieutenant at 18-because his Army father was killed at San Juan. And the third man considered-Major General DeWitt, who now commands the War College-enlisted in the war against Spain...
...University of Illinois last week supplied it. A board of politically-uninfected faculty members awarded to Tom Dewey, for "enrichment of American life and welfare" by his racket-bustings, the Cardinal Newman Award for 1938. This honor, from a Roman Catholic lay foundation started 15 years ago by Father John A. O'Brien, son of a rich Peoria landowner, was awarded to Thomas Mann (1937), Alexis Carrel (1936), Robert Andrews Millikan (1934), George Norris (1933). It was also awarded to less permanent giants on the national scene: Gerald Nye (1935), Frank Billings Kellogg...
Popular hero of an exhausting war, Germán Busch was born in 1904 in the hot, fertile, coffee-growing region of central Bolivia, midway between the edge of the Chaco and the rust-colored, tin-filled mountains around La Paz. His father, after stopping three arrows in an attack by savages, went to Germany, sent Germán and his mother to Trinidad. Germán went to a provincial school, entered military college...
Since Blaschka and his father sent the first shipment of the priceless flowers to Harvard in 1887, the total output of their studio has come here. The last group of flowers to be sent, fifteen fruit models, arrived in 1936. There is nobody to carry on their work, because father and son always did their work without any assistants...