Word: grandson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...claim that James Michael Curley may have won the mayoral election of 1921 over his fellow Catholic John R. Murphy by accusing Murphy of eating a roast-beef sandwich on a Friday. As Murphy's grandson, I can say that you have much underestimated Curley's genius for political skulduggery...
...grandson of brandy makers from the town of Cognac, Monnet learned as a youth that masterworks are not accomplished by shortcuts. He deftly summed up this truth: "The great thing about making cognac is that it teaches you above everything else to waitman proposes, but time and God and the seasons have got to be on your side." He began his career as a globetrotting salesman for the family's distillery. Witnessing the chaos and waste of World War I convinced him of the need for international cooperation. By 1916 Monnet had become France's representative in London...
...Prime Minister who forced the Shah to briefly flee Iran before being toppled by a CIA-assisted coup in 1953, a crowd including many Khomeini critics gathered in Ahmadabad (pop. 800), 60 miles northwest of Tehran. At a rally outside the brown brick house where Mossadegh is buried, his grandson-in-law, Dr. Hedayatollah Matine-Daftary, called for the creation of a National Democratic Front. Its program: a referendum to abolish the monarchy followed by an extended debate on the new constitution. Matine-Daftary also favors home rule for ethnic minorities like the Kurds, the abolition of censorship and worker...
...year Alex Haley went to Africa to search for traces of his ancestor Kunta Kinte. In the hours be tween, the show charts the lives of four generations of the author's family. The first segment ends with the death of Kun ta Kinte's grandson, Chicken George (Avon Long); by the final episode the viewer has briefly seen Haley's own chil dren. As before, public events are dramatized in terms of their effect on one black family. But the post-Civil War his tory covered by Roots 11 is less melodramatic than the slavery...
...July 6, 1953 a young American stepped off the plane at Qaar-E-Shirim, Iran, and passed through customs. His name was Kermit Roosevelt '38, the grandson of Theodore Roosevelt '81 and the cousin of Franklin D. Roosevelt '04. The customs officer let him pass without hindrance unaware that Roosevelt had just received instructions from Allen Dulles, the new head of the CIA, to topple the regime of the Iranian nationalist Dr. Muhammed Mossadeq. The fledgeling CIA had taken considerable interest in Iran during the preceding years, as previously unpublished documents show. Alarmed by the continuing Soviet threat to Iran...