Word: grandson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...contest draws its support from a trust fund created by the son of William L. Putnam in 1938, and is now administered by George Putnam, treasurer of the College, William Putnam's grandson...
...both a diplomatic duty and a sentimental journey for President Carter's mother. While her son voiced mock concern that "when Mother gets home we'll either have very good relations with India or they'll be destroyed once again," Miss Lillian, 78, and Grandson Chip, 26, flew to New Delhi to lead the official U.S. delegation at the funeral last week of Indian President Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed. Jimmy Carter had nothing to worry about. His mother's Southern grace charmed everyone, including Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, who invited her home for what Miss Lillian called...
Most Britons were aghast. Winston Churchill, the late Prime Minister's grandson and M.P. for the Stretford district where Powell spoke, called such sentiments "insane, venomous outpourings." Wolverhampton Laborite Renee Short was more explicit. She accused Powell of purveying twaddle and advised: "Belt up, you big bore...
...like it. I don't like everybody calling him Mr. President." To set his family at ease, Carter, in a private moment in a room in the Capitol a few minutes after the swearing-in, asked if they had ever seen his 18-month-old grandson Jason imitate him. "Come on, Jason, smile like Jimmy," he coaxed. Jason obliged with a toothy, if tiny smile...
Enter the villain, Carter Burden. The reason Felker is the minority stockholder in his own concern is because two years ago New York bought the Voice, with Carter Burden's money. Burden, the great-great-grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt, and his friend Bartle Bull, ended up with 34 per cent of New York stock...