Word: sons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Yellow Magic. To back up these warlike words, Chang Tso-lin was hastening last week the advance southward of an army commanded by his son, Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang. As his troop trains rumbled into the province of Honan, little papers by thousands were found strewn along the tracks. When Chang's soldiers read them, they discovered with terror that a mighty brotherhood of magicians, the Red Lances, had imprinted the papers with curses. "Whoso enters Honan to fight her defenders," read the curse, "shall suffer the withdrawal of the protection of his ancestors. Beware...
Eugene G. Grace, President, Bethlehem Steel Corp.: "At the annual meeting of my company's stock-holders last week, Richard A. Jones, retired Manhattan businessman, refused to vote for the re-election of Director Alvin Untermyer, son of Lawyer Samuel Untermyer, declaring that Samuel Untermyer gave comfort to 'undesirable Reds' and was 'a man of Bolshevist leanings,' and that the son could not 'escape adopting the same policies.' I answered that Alvin Untermyer was a substantial stockholder, as was his father, that he had served on the board three years...
...Jail (Jack Mulhall). Son (Jack Mulhall) clashes with Father over conduct of the milk business, is thereupon advised to start his own route outside the family circle. Speeding near Lost Angeles lodges him in jail where he meets most of the best people, confined for the same offense. Social opportunities thus afforded give rise to better milk and more of it, provided by Son in competition with a now alarmed as well as irate parent. Father swallows defeat. Son marries the heroine with the family blessing, the while a moderately amused audience guffaws at his clowning...
Born. To Editor John Chipman Farrar of the Bookman (see p. 23) and Margaret Petherbridge Farrar, co-author of the crossword puzzle, a son, John Chipman Jr., "8 Ibs., red hair, light complected...
Engaged. Vilma Banky, who acted with the late Rudolph Valentino in his last picture The Son of the Sheik; to Rod La Rocque, lanky cinemactor; in Hollywood...