Word: mother
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Greene, 25, master of the ship bearing his name is descended from a long line of rivermen. His first mate, the only woman on the Ohio river to hold a pilot's license, was his mother...
Sirs: Are we ever going to hear the last of the hysterical ravings over Charles Lindbergh and be informed of one kindly deed, one generous donation, one appreciative gesture, any tribute of love and acknowledgments of his mother's part-the major part, of this overrated, childishly magnified onetime flight across the Atlantic? Perhaps you too will dare to say the Eagle has pig's feet. ALVA REMING...
Rock Island, Davenport. Moäne; Sea Scout's Mother Sirs: Being a kamaiina myself, I found your ac count of Honolulu families very interesting, and I would like to add the following. Elizabeth, the eldest daughter of Prime Minister Judd, was the first white woman born in the Hawaiian Islands. She married Captain S. G. Wilder, who organized the first inter-island steamship line, known as the Wilder Steamship Company. In telling me of the incidents related in your article about her father and Captain Paulet, she added the following: Captain Paulet declared sn embargo on vessels leaving...
...Highland town of Inverness, the Town Councilors last week offered Freedom-of-the-Burgh to Stanley Baldwin and Ramsay MacDonald "in recognition of the distinction they have brought to Clan Donald." Not widely known is the fact that Britain's two foremost statesmen are distant cousins. Stanley Baldwin's mother was a MacDonald, his ancestors rebellious Jacobites...
...Lewisohn Stadium. Last week he had just returned from mountain climbing in Mittenwald, Bavaria (famed for violins), with his daughter Eleonor, eleven. Eleonor goes to school in Switzerland, prefers sailing on her father's 20-ft. sloop. Last week she went to Chicago to visit her divorced mother, Pianist Elly Ney.* Mr. van Hoogstraten's hobby is sailing; his horror, fishing...