Word: sons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sure he is the son of Otto H. Kahn who has been exploited in TIME rather an unusual number of times. He is a prominent citizen much in the limelight regarding charities, music and the reorganization of Rail Roads supposedly in successful operation, but all this is "by the way" not warranting his son on the cover while there remains hundreds of others whose appearance there would interest your subscribers and meet their greater approval, and furthermore not warranting so much space given over to a supposedly musical prodigy who has yet far to go. J write with...
Senator Curtis was in lively earnest. "I will not consent," he said, "to become a candidate if the delegation is to be selected with a view to voting for me for a few ballots as a 'favorite son.' . . . I will not allow myself to be used as a 'stalking horse' for anyone...
Observers were at a loss to see how Senator Curtis could be anything but a "favorite son" at the national convention. They were surprised that so astute a politician as Senator Curtis could regard himself as a serious contender for the favor of the many sections and factions which must be milled and swept together before 555 votes are accumulated for any one at the G. O. Party's big panjandrum. And yet-and yet- And yet the earwig that entered many a Senatorial ear with Senator Harding's nomination in 1920, was a most irresistible earwig...
Victim. Simon Petlura, in the opinion of many, was an adventurer. The son of a Russian cabman, he is said to have been active in plotting against the Tsar. In 1918 he entered Kiev, capital of the Ukraine, with the Austrian and German armies, under whose auspices he took the lead in trying to separate that province from the rest of Russia. He not only promoted himself a general but also declared himself ruler of the Ukraine. He failed and was obliged to flee. Two years later he reappeared, this time under the Poles, becoming president of a short-lived...
...Pont. "I want to fly as long as I can and die like a gentleman." So said Alexis Felix du Pont, son of the vice president of the du Pont de Nemours & Co., who entrained last week for San Antonio, Tex., to begin service in the army air service as a cadet...