Word: fathers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Gradually Martha Dodd got over her Nazi measles, and by the time of the Purge (1934), she was even more violently anti-Nazi than her father. A trip to Russia, on which she never once removed her rose-colored spectacles, confirmed her in the anti-faith. She describes horrific tortures inflicted on concentration-camp prisoners ("a few I know of directly"), thinks "there is still a good deal of organized opposition among the people in Germany...
...instance, invented a machine which pulverizes ore by feeding it into a whirling drum containing a lot of little steel balls. Many a fortune has been made with it. It became generally known last week that Mrs. Hardinge's smart grandson had added a smart refinement to his father's famed "ball process" of ore reduction...
...Hardinge's son, Harlowe, vice president and general manager of Hardinge Co. of York, Pa., studied his father's "ball mill" in operation. There was a certain rate of feeding in ore at which it performed most efficiently, and that rate could be estimated by sound. When the feed was too slow, the noisy clatter of the mill increased; when too fast, the sound was muffled. Workmen were trained to listen for these changes in sound and manipulate the ore flow accordingly. But Harlowe Hardinge noticed that the listeners' judgment was likely to vary as much...
...queerest choices Franklin Roosevelt ever made was to pick William Edward Dodd, a history professor brimming with academic ideals, stiff-necked with homey truths and tactlessness, as U. S. Ambassador to Germany. That Martha Dodd is her father's daughter any reader of Through Embassy Eyes will quickly see. Her account of the increasingly uneasy four and a half years the Dodds spent in Berlin is like a series of blurted indiscretions. But no one could live so long in such a focal spot in complete diplomatic immunity: some of what Martha Dodd has to tell is worth listening...
...marry Dr. Gregg, a newcomer to the sleepy Southern town which is becoming an industrial centre without the old inhabitants knowing it. The time is 1909. The night before the ceremony they quarrel; Jennie says she won't marry a man who has sworn at her; mother, father and the doctor's friend act as peacemakers; the Confederate veterans assemble to take part in the ceremony; the minister refuses to have Confederate flags in the church; the groom begins to drink; when the time comes Jennie goes to the altar, just as everyone knew she would...