Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...common man's President had died uncommonly wealthy. His executors assessed his gross estate, before expenses and taxes, at $1,940,999. Nearly half that amount he had inherited in stocks and bonds from his mother; another half-million was soundly liquid in bank accounts, additional securities and U.S. Treasury bonds. Hyde Park property (including $110,520 worth donated to the nation) and the famous stamp collection (auctioned for $212,847) were other principal assets...
Back in Shakopee, Moriarty has a mother who is as energetic as he is. He wrote her asking if she could get a few friends to send gift parcels for the boys at Christmas. Mrs. Moriarty put the story in Shakopee's local paper. The agencies picked it up, and from all over the U.S. Moriarty got 35,000 letters asking for the boys' addresses. Said he, "I never saw anything like...
Died. Sir William Ashbee Tritton, 71, British agricultural machinery expert who, in collaboration with W. G. Wilson, designed the Mark I "mother" tank, prototype of all British tanks used during World Wars I and II; in Lincoln, England...
...Deck. Emanuel's cloak-&-dagger manner and his name (his mother merely liked the name Victor, had no thought of Italy's ex-King) have caused some to suspect him of having an exotic foreign background. Actually, V.E. is as endemically American as flapjacks and maple syrup. He was born in Dayton, the son of a wealthy utilities man. It was a wonderful time and place to grow up in. Only two doors away Charles F. Kettering was working on a magical invention that would start autos automatically; Orville Wright skittered around in one of the first airplanes...
...President. F.D.R.'s second son and self-styled errand runner ("I'm the Roosevelt who didn't go to Harvard") undoubtedly heard plenty: at the Atlantic Charter conference, at Casablanca, Cairo and Teheran. How well he remembers what he heard may be something else, as his mother tactfully suggests in her foreword to this book: "I am quite sure that many of the people who heard many of the conversations recorded herein, interpreted them differently, according to their own thoughts and beliefs...