Word: john
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dislodged even by Hero No. 1 of the U. S. 3) Lindbergh Sr. made his political reputation as a radical. Col. Lindbergh has comfortable, conservative political views, if any. Many another son has followed his father into high office. Only one President's son has become President (John Adams-John Quincy Adams); only one President's grandson has become President (William Henry Harrison-Benjamin Harrison). But two Senators' sons now sit in the Senate: Frederick Hale of Maine whose sire was the late great Eugene Hale (1836-1918) and Robert Marion La Follette of Wisconsin, the Peter...
Melodramatic, Martyred, Myopic and Monkeylike was Prosecution Lawyer John G. Carpenter. He held Widow Aderholt's hand, knelt before the jury, lay down on the floor and writhed (acting out Aderholt's death). He lost his boutonniere, got another, lost that too. He shouted at the jury: "Men. do your duty; do your duty, men, and in the name of God and justice render a verdict that will be emblazoned across the sky of America as an eternal sign that justice has been done." He asserted that the union headquarters in Gastonia had been "not a cross-section...
...magazine of the New York Herald Tribune. Later Mr. Young showed her through his General Electric Co. laboratories at Schnectady. Then Mr. & Mrs. Nicholas Frederic Brady (copper, public utilities) took her in their private railroad car to Henry Ford's party at Dearborn, Mich., for Thomas Alva Edison. John Davison Rockefeller III, four months out of Princeton, pausing in China on his way to the Institute of Pacific Relations at Kyoto, said: "I told father I was due in New York Sunday, Dec. 1, to be ready to begin work [in his father's office] Monday...
...entered heaven, he left his dynasty in the hands of his son, William Bramwell Booth. William quarreled with his sister, Commander Evangeline Cory Booth; the dynasty was endangered (TIME, Jan. 14). Last March the deadlock between Salvationists Bramwell and Evangeline was broken when the Salvation Army Council elected Edward John Higgins as General (TIME, Mar. 11 ) . Salvationists Bramwell and Evangeline had another sister, Lucy Booth-Hellberg, 61, stationed at Stockholm, where were her home and her husband's grave. Last week Lucy Booth-Hellberg, appointed to a station in South America, East, by General Higgins, sailed. Before she went...
...Life Building, Macy's, the Hotels Plaza and St. Regis were among the jobs on which Herr Kreuger worked as engineer. He also helped to plan and build the Syracuse Stadium, which the late, great Rockefeller-partner John D. Archbold paid for. In 1907 Herr Kreuger returned to Stockholm where, with Paul Toll, he formed the construction firm of Kreuger & Toll. Soon office buildings, apartments, hotels, began to change the Stockholm skyline. Real estate and construction have now become a Kreuger sideline, but most of the modern business structures of Stockholm are Kreuger-built and many are Kreuger-owned...