Word: parents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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They objected to a teacher who would use the word that Principal Tate had used in front of their children. When Mr. Colson asked one of the parents what "evolution" meant, the parent said: "I do not know and I do not want to know but I do know that I do not want my children to know anything about it, either." The result of this to-do was a request that Mr. Tate, anti-evolutionist and Deacon of the Baptist Church, was asked to resign as Principal of the Farragut Grammar School...
Benjamin Joy, to partnership in J. P. Morgan et Cie. of Paris, but not of J. P. Morgan & Co. of Manhattan (the parent organization). Immediately upon the announcement Mr. Joy, once a vice president of the Bankers Trust Co. of Manhattan, resigned his affiliation with Dillon, Read & Co., and sailed for Paris...
This was composed of exactly the same members as the parent Disarmament Commission, except that the Russian and U. S. Delegates announced themselves unable to participate. Comrade Litvinov finally consented to sit as an "observer"; but the U. S. Delegate, Hugh R. Wilson, U. S. Minister to Switzerland, had inflexible instructions from Washington...
...taken from a man, a young woman, a babe. Impersonal, they reported that the man and the young woman belong to the second "blood group," while the child belongs to the fourth. Summing up, they wrote: "A child invariably inherits its blood group characteristics from one or the other parent. As, in the present case, neither the mother's nor the alleged father's blood shows the characteristics found in the child, the only conclusion possible is that parentage by the accused man is excluded...
...this situation Vickers Ltd. and Armstrong, Whitworth & Co. recently decided to help themselves by amalgamating their naval shipbuilding, armament and heavy and special steel business as a separate company. This new company the parent concerns will control jointly. Last week they had practically completed details of the new company's organization and exchange of stock. On Jan. 1, it begins to function...