Word: parents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Your Back (Fox). Unlike most dramas of mother-love, this has a legitimate theme and an interesting background. The theme is an exposition of how the plans an ambitious parent makes for her son are rejected because they do not coincide with the way he has mapped out his own life. The background, decoratively handled, is a dressmaking business built up by Mother Irene Rich. Her specialty is giving show girls clothes on credit, knowing they will wheedle the money out of their sweethearts. Her plans for her son go to seed when he falls in love with a girl...
...years later it sponsored Niagara Share Corp. of Maryland, an investment trust specializing in utilities, especially utilities in which Shoellkopf, Hutton & Pomeroy are interested, including Niagara Hudson Power Corp. Last week it was announced that Niagara Share will acquire Shoell-kopf, Hutton & Pomeroy. A case of child swallowing parent who wanted to be swallowed, the deal rounds out Niagara Share's departments, will bring more business to the investment firm whose management and name will remain unchanged...
...tennis championship for California"; to many a friend in the U. S., South America and England, many a thousand; to two nieces and a nephew, most of the residue. Excerpt from the will: "I declare on my honor that I have never been married, and never have been a parent of a child in or out of matrimony, but in case anyone claiming or pretending to be my wife or child or grandchild should establish such claims in any court of competent jurisdiction, to each such person I give and bequeath...
...night beneath Spring and Autumn moons. Sportsmen find it hard to hit because of its erratic, dodging flight. But, foolish, it seldom flies far. Clumsy gunners can sometimes flush and shoot at the same woodcock a half-dozen, times. The female is larger than the male. Parent woodcock often carry their young clutched between their thighs (second-joints) when seeking fresh feeding grounds...
Further and unreassuring developments came last week with White Star's announcement that it would be unable to meet its half-yearly dividend on approximately $25,000,000 worth of preferred stock, that it had called on Royal Mail, its present parent company, to fulfill its guaranty. Almost simultaneously, however, came announcement that Royal Mail itself would be unable to meet its dividends. Fortnight ago Lord Kylsant announced that he had appointed a committee of bankers to investigate Royal Mail's financial position...