Word: sons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...United States functioning under its present Constitution, a baby was born in Virginia and baptized John Tyler. Fifty-one years later John Tyler was inaugurated tenth President of the United States, Twelve years after that, when he was 63, John Tyler's wife bore him a son in Virginia. Seven years later she bore a daughter to 70-year-old John Tyler. The son, baptized Lyon Gardner Tyler, lived to be President-Emeritus of William and Mary college. Shortly after his 70th birthday Lyon Gardner took a second wife (Sue Ruffin, whose ancestor fired the first gun at Fort...
...highest pitch in England. To fit with this setting there is the beautiful and noble heroine the brawny, brave, and confident hero, and last but not least the urbanely smooth Spanish Count who enters the story by virtue of a shipwreck on English shores. This wily son of Spain abducts the beautiful heroine and carries her to his native land. Through all sorts of adversity she is followed by her faithful lover, and in the end, as may well be expected, she is rescued from the jaws of death...
...Son Rudolph did not retire. What held him back was another battle, again with his father. Father Claus, standing at his open window had sneezed, once, twice, three times. To the gas company whose plant was pouring smoke over San Francisco Father Claus sent a vigorous protest. He started a gas company of his own, deliberately set out to drive the San Francisco Gas Co. to the rocks. But Son Rudolph, on the verge of retirement, was a stockholder in the besieged company. When the stock fell, he gained control, cut out $300,000 waste, whipped Father Claus a second...
...Son Rudolph never did retire. In 1906 he turned crusader, organized and financed the war against graft in the state and city government. He promised to go on to New York, Chicago, Denver. Bitter were the attacks on his sincerity, his aims. His wife and family were insulted on the street. Son Rudolph replied that he had never voted and vowed he would never hold office. This promise he has kept. He has not yet carried the battle to the East. But he is only...
Harry Ford Sinclair, oilman, heavy contributor to the Republican war chest of 1920, and John Jacob Raskob, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, celebrated a day of mutual goodwill. It was Father & Son Day at the Newman School in Lakewood, N. J., where Messrs. Sinclair & Raskob and many another bigwig met sons at school...