Word: parents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...band. For seven weary years he had assiduously scraped his practice fiddle; now with all the confidence that the maturity of his thirteen summers could impart, he determined to practice no more. Henceforth, ho too, like his father, would command applause from large audiences. Informed of the project, his parent anticipated its execution by apprenticing him to the marine corps band of which he was a member. In order to prevent the reoccurrence of similar fugitive aspirations, a stern officer in full regalia read to the awed stripling a list of imposing regulations. He was informed that any attempt...
...understood that if the Governor chooses anyone outside Tammany, it would be a direct affront and an indication of his distrust of all that had to do with the organization. The result would probably be a breach between them. And since Roosevelt needs all the support his political parent can offer in the coming election, such a "snub" might prove disastrous...
...Secretary Mills estimated that the substitution of bonds for commercial paper would release about $750,000,000 in gold from currency coverage. He denied that the purpose of freeing this gold was to create a reserve to resist foreign raids on the dollar though such a result was ap- parent. The measures were promptly reported to the House and Senate. The House passed (350-10-15) its bill after a three-hour debate...
...Canadian Government by next summer (TIME, Dec. 30, 1929). Four times so far, at six-month intervals, planes of Alaskan Airways have overtaken the drive with supplies for the lonely herders. Last week General Manager Arthur W. Johnson started home from a visit to the Manhattan offices of the parent company American Airways Inc.-to chart routes for the next flight, which they expect to make next month, with three tons of food & supplies...
Julian, sensitive adolescent and only son, is fond of both his parents and hates to see them quarrel. His mother has abandoned love for religion; his father is in love with young Novelist Pauline but cannot get a divorce to marry her. Julian himself is enamored of Hildegarde, young thing of his own age; they agonize together over a world that was not molded very near to their hearts' desire. For a while it looks as though everything would go badly for everybody. Pauline tries to break off her affair with Julian's father when...