Word: grandchildren
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this decision involves Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt's candidacy as Democratic Presidential nominee. Ambitious Governor & Mrs. Roosevelt are striving mightily to build up voters' goodwill and sympathy. (So preoccupied is he especially, that Mrs. Roosevelt must make specific appointments for any of their five children and two grandchildren to visit him.) Governor Roosevelt dares not alienate the powerful medical profession and its allied professions, arts and businesses. And he needs, apart from the populace, the goodwill and co-operation of political machines. In California Dr. Coffey, chief surgeon of the Southern Pacific and the Dollar Line...
...Hoover Secretary Joslin, chief humanizer. to spend a day about the White House, interview the President. Reporter Williams arrived at 7:45 a. m., talked with the President for 20 min., roamed about the house, sat in the Lincoln study, played with the six presidential dogs, watched the Hoover grandchildren from a distance, departed at 6 p. m. Last week in a "folksy" broadcast of his experiences, he declared: "Within the White House you can hear the shrill, excited laughter of little children. What if their grandfather is the President of the U. S? That does not prevent him from...
Home in Detroit since he left Florida last March, Henry Ford last week had much to occupy his mind. His home life is happy. He has a son, four grandchildren: Henry Ford II, 13; Edsel Ford Jr., 11; Josephine Ford, 8; William Clay Ford, 6. He has used his money to surround himself with those things he likes. Yet Depression has not spared him. Ford sales are running about 50% lower than last year. In addition, there is every indication that the great Chevrolet v. Ford battle is more intense than ever with Chevrolet in the lead. There have been...
...Brooklyn, N. Y., Ann May Gebhardt was born 74 months after her grandmother had died and left a will which gave $2,000 "to each of my grandchildren who may be born after the making of this will and who may still be living at the time of my death." A judge decided that Ann May Gebhardt, though not yet born at the time of Grandma Gebhardt's death, was legally living, entitled...
...Hoover attended a sunrise service (it was cold and cloudy) at the amphitheatre in Arlington National Cemetery, later went to the Friends Meeting House. As usual on Easter Monday eggs were rolled, cracked, squashed and eaten by hundreds of ordinary Washington children on the South Grounds while Grandchildren Peggy Anne and Herbert III ("Peter") were privately entertaining 200 youngsters from official families...