Word: fortes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week President Roosevelt at the age of 52 became a grandfather for the fifth time, when a 6 lb. 6 oz. girl was born in a Fort Worth, Tex. hospital. The baby's parents: Second Son Elliott and his second wife Ruth Googins, who were married last July, five days after Elliott had divorced Elizabeth Donner Roosevelt at Minden, Nev. (TIME, July 31) The baby's name: Ruth Chandler Roosevelt, picked by her mother before she was born. Said Grandmother Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt: "Of course I'm thrilled to have another granddaughter, and awfully glad...
Born. To Mrs. Ruth Googins Roosevelt, wife of President Roosevelt's son Elliott; a daughter; in Fort Worth...
...word has been uttered in even a feeble defense of me. And it must be obvious that there also is my side of the story. "When it is told in court, my judgment may be discredited, but certainly my honesty will be vindicated." The cutter bore the Insulls to Fort Hancock on the tip of Sandy Hook. They were motored under guard to Princeton Junction, N. J. and by 10 a. m. were aboard a westbound Pennsylvania train. Next day in Chicago, after being fingerprinted and suffering a slight heart attack, the Elder Insull was arraigned in Federal Court. Judge...
...provided money for a memorial tablet to be raised in Toronto to "General Pike and the others of the U. S. forces killed in action." Toronto's Mayor William Stewart and his Council had contributed the spot for the tablet on the original site of old Fort York, had agreed to preside at the unveiling ceremonies next July...
...doses of castor oil gravely injured a U. S. Army doctor's career last week. Lieut. Colonel Bertram Foster Duckwall of Fort Clayton, Canal Zone ordered an oil purge for an enlisted man with an injured foot. Another soldier suffering from appendicitis received a similar dose. Seriously injudicious were those purgings, decided a board of Army officers who court-martialed Lieut. Colonel Duckwall and ordered his promotion to a colonelcy, when due, delayed a full year...