Word: sons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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White Collar Son. Significantly in the party of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas last week was their son A. J. Thomas. He met them when they landed from the S.S. Duchess of Athol at Quebec. He is one of the Mother Country's sons who have come over in the past five years to take a job with Daughter Canada. His job is Assistant to the Director of Shop Methods of the Canadian National Railways...
Last week Mrs. Thomas fondly embraced her white-collared son, proudly watched while he extended to Privy Seal Jim an official welcome in the name of the Canadian National Railways...
...Cierva, son of a Spanish diplomat, has been building air machines since he was 16. Eleven years ago a trimotored job which he designed crashed on its first flight with one of his friends. The accident set him striving for safety...
Surgeon Squibb did not live to see this new experiment. He sold his business some 25 years ago to the late Lowell M. Palmer, potent lime and cement man, who installed his son-in-law, Theodore Weicker, to run it. Later, Mr. Palmer's able son, Carleton H. Palmer, was installed at an early age and became, after the war and his father's death, president of the company. It was under his youthful stimulus that the business began advertising, expanding. Still young (38 years), clean-shaven (Squibb's shaving cream), smiling through white teeth (Squibb...
...Unable to comprehend the psychology of one who pursues the arts instead of following more gainful occupations," the Dreyfusses committed the sculptor-son to Bellevue Hospital's Psychopathic Ward last year. Here he was kept for six days in the company of ailing thugs and alcoholic cutups. After Bellevue he summered in the Asylum for the Insane on Ward's Island in the East River. Thence, because zealous friends were seeing him without the family's permission, he was transferred to the exclusive Dr. McDonald's Sanitarium at Central Valley, N. Y., where in durance grand...