Word: sons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...father entrusts his business to the direction of a son whom he has trained to follow in his footsteps. A rich, notorious, client places a-to say the least-large order. Father and Son live in the same neighborhood, on friendly terms. Is it likely that Father, however inactive in the business, will remain totally ignorant of the Son's large order during several weeks when Son is executing...
...trial of Father William J. Burns, the great detective, and Son W. Sherman Burns, ignorance of the son's actions was the father's plea. Their detectives had been hired by Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair to shadow the jury chosen to try Sinclair for criminal conspiracy with Albert Bacon Fall, Harding Cabinet man. Father Burns said he knew nothing about it. When the Washington Herald (Hearst) discovered, and the Department of Justice announced, the shady work afoot (TIME, Nov. 14), it was news to Father Burns-said Father Burns...
...Entering a crowded room at Mine No. 5 school between Mercer and Grove City, at 2 p.m. today, Mrs. Jack McCall, aged 30, wife of a coal miner, pulled a butcher knife from beneath her long coat and drew it across the throat of her 7-year-old son, Lawrence, severing the boy's jugular vein and causing his death in a few moments...
...racing stables, will sometimes descend to low and disgraceful practices. For example, Mrs. Florence B. Ilch, highly successful exhibitor of collies, aroused the professional jealousy of, it is surmised, an unscrupulous competitor. This competitor was aware that Mrs. Ilch was afflicted with a weak heart, that she had two sons who go to college. Accordingly, when she was on the point of leading her first entry into the ring, the competitor sent Mrs. Florence Ilch a telegram which read as follows: "Hurry to New Haven immediately, son, James, killed in automobile accident, (signed) Roommate." In a state of partial collapse...
...foreign business showed steady growth;" 4) "Surgeons' knives, chisels, office-knives and twine-cutters have been added to our line during 1927;" 5) "We regret to record the death during the year of one of our oldest directors, Mr. William A. Gaston. Mr. John Gaston, his son, has been elected a director to succeed...