Word: grandson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Addressing a University of Kansas audience, he said: "I have tried to be kind to Arthur Capper. I love him. But I don't want to have a man 80 or 90 years old representing us in writing the [peace] treaty that will affect you students and my grandson." The word went down the line that only a miracle could now elect old Arthur Capper...
...After Jacob, grandson of Abraham, had wrestled all night with the angel at the brook Jabbok, the angel dubbed him Israel ("Prince of God"), "for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed." * Defenders forced down one plane the first day, a British-made Spitfire. Its youthful Egyptian pilot was overjoyed to find that he was not to be subjected to torture, which he had been told to expect...
...Grandson of Michigan Governor Henry H. Crapo (1864-68) and cousin of Automaker William Crapo Durant...
...causes of war. If in the measurable future we don't find some way of eliminating the causes of war, our grandchildren are going to find this world a most unhappy place in which to live ... That is important to me. I've lately had a grandson...
Except for their political tenacity, there were few obvious resemblances between Canada's King and Britain's Walpole. King, grandson of William Lyon Mackenzie, who in 1837 led a futile rebellion against the tight clique ruling Upper Canada, began his career as a social worker. Walpole, to the manor born, worked for the good of the landed gentry. A high liver, a great man for the ladies, he was also a follower of the hounds. Bachelor Mackenzie King lives austerely. Though he has been known to ride, he would be miserable in a pink coat...