Word: sons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...often accepted a political base on balls in Indiana, last week announced his Presidential candidacy. As he went to bat he made all the motions of a player who is going to knock it into the Presidential bleachers, making perfectly clear he was not just a Favorite Son...
Cotton Mather was born in Boston in 1663, the son of Increase Mather, one time president of the University. He took his Bachelor's Degree at the age of 15, and later became a member of the Board of Fellows. A biographical account says, "Mather's day was a continuous church service. He sang psalms, catechized servants, sang more psalms, and entertained his wife (during his life he had three) by reading religious exercises." In spite of his religious bent, Mather was an enthusiastic scientist, and years before Jenner, the discoverer of vaccination, was born, he had advocated inoculation...
Sunday Herbert Hoover, Secretary of Commerce, dictated a letter to the leading Ohio booster, giving him permission to toss a nominatory monkey-wrench into the works. Since Ohio's plans, and particularly those of its favorite son. Senator Frank B. Willis, had not included the Secretary of Commerce, the official entrance of the interloper made a good deal of hubbub on the second floor of Masonic Hall. Hoover has flouted the old Ohio tradition of unanimous nomination of the favorite son. No wonder Secretary Willis accuses the Secretary of "violating the decencies of politics." And by mail...
...regret of Senator Willis that Hoover has spoiled the unanimity of the Ohio delegates, whose unfaltering adherence to Willis might have gone down into history with Alabama's famous 39 votes for Underwood. Senator Willis is the only one to raise his voice against an opponent who holds favorite-son tradition in contempt; whatever the other planks in his platform, he is at least a gentleman of the old school, a lone surviving guardian of courteous politics. Even if, bravely fighting, he should go down, Herber Hoover has still to meet the national convention. In Kansas City, then, where...
...captain's own son is the vehicle of fate's revenge-a revenge in which the cruel captain and his caged mate are burned up together in the hold of the haunted ship...