Word: sons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Milwaukee man posed. The President posed. The son hunted for them in the finder of the camera, maneuvering nervously for the proper position. Nervous himself, the father explained, directed, called orders in a loud and louder voice. The President got nervous, too. His sun-bleached eyebrows contracted, his freckled cheeks grew hard. He turned his head and said something to the Milwaukeean, something which to bystanders sounded very much like: "Shut up your head or get out of here...
...name of the late Calvin Coolidge Jr., a Mrs. A. Mildred Odalivitch, of Seattle, Washington, last week, begged Mrs. Coolidge to intercede for Mark Dowell, her son, who was sentenced to hang at San Quentin, Calif., for killing a San Francisco policeman. Mrs. Coolidge did what she could. She asked President Coolidge to act. He in turn asked Attorney-General Sargent to tell Mrs. Odalivitch what course to take. The Sargent advice was to appeal to a justice of the United States Supreme Court, to review the case. That had already been done unsuccessfully. Mark Dowell was hanged...
Strange to see in the Ohio primary (see below) was the second defeat in a year for Charles P. Taft II, stalwart, cheerful, encyclopedic son of the Chief Justice of the U. S. As the youthful (31-year-old) Prosecutor of Hamilton County (Cincinnati) he was beaten in December in his attempt to convict George Remus, onetime 'legger and convict, "insane" wife-murderer. As an energetic idealist, Son Taft worked with a Citizens' Republican Committee to reform the G. O. P. in Cincinnati. He preached liberalism, integrity. But it did not go down. He was beaten...
...Said Son Taft: "I am sorrier than I can say that the people of this community have rejected the ideals and aims for which it [the Citizens' Republican Committee] stood...
They married in 1903. He was the son of a Saxon beer merchant; and, being a smart son, won his Doctor's degree with a thesis entitled: Upon the Development of the Berlin Bottled Beer Trade...