Word: sons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...over its Gloucester fisherman's bow. Mrs. Charles Francis Adams, wife of the Secretary of the Navy, solemnly pronounced these words at Portsmouth, N. H., last week as the Navy's largest submarine slid down the stocks and out upon the Piscataqua River. Beside her stood her son, Charles Francis Adams Jr. and Admiral Charles F. Hughes, Chief of Naval Operations. Snow was falling on her fur coat, on her bouquet of roses. Navy men pressed about her solicitously, to shield her from the storm...
Bishop James Cannon Jr., of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, politician, prohibitor, stock speculator, lent moral but not financial support to his son Richard M. Cannon, on trial at Montrose, Calif., for failing to pay his teachers and for maintaining unsanitary conditions at his school ("Cannon Military Academy"). Enraged at being newsphoto-graphed outside the courthouse. Bishop Cannon grappled with cameramen, crying, "What right have you to take my picture...
...have taken comfort in the fact it would be hard to find a less murderous Communist than Ambassador Sokolnikov. Born in 1888, son of a moderately well-to-do bourgeois family, he was exiled for socialist tendencies, went to Paris, where he graduated from the Sorbonne. After the Revolution he returned to Russia, in 1918 was an editorial writer on Pravda, now the Soviet's official mouthpiece. Despite his bourgeois background, he led a Soviet army in Turkestan against counter revolutionists, then became Minister of the Treasury and in 1928 head of the Soviet oil syndicate. In choosing...
...Tiens, Messieurs!" he cried with an engaging smile, "ne tirez pas au pianiste! Don't shoot the piano player! Il fait de son mieux. He's doing the best he can. That, gentlemen," he added confidentially to his somewhat mystified hearers, "is an American argument. That is what they used to say in American frontier towns. Voyons, Messieurs! With what do you reproach me? The only two laws which have been passed since my Government came into office [TIME, Nov. 11] had the support of five-sixths of the Chamber. Shall I make another argument...
Elected. Samuel Insull Jr., son of Public Utilitarian Samuel Insull; to be vice-chairman of Middle West Utilities Corp., of which his father is board chairman; in Chicago...