Word: sons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...surprising," said members of Congress when they heard that President Coolidge had appointed one Mrs. Anna G. M. Tillinghast as Commissioner of Immigration at Boston. She had been opposing the reelection) of Frank W. Stearns' son-in-law to the chairmanship of the Massachusetts Republican Committee...
...neat women of the City Club listened with attention. Mrs. Bethune had been introduced to them as the "world's foremost Negro woman educator." They had been told of her life-how she was born in a log cabin on a rice farm, how with her husband and son she had moved, long before the boom, to Palatka, Fla., where she taught in school, and sang "with unusual effect" in churches. All the time she wanted to start a school of her own, a school to "make colored girls plain and decent." She began in a rented house with...
Thus howled, last week, the Royalist organ L'Action Française. Its editor, Léon Daudet, son of Alphonse Daudet, whose Letters from My Mill breathe such quietude, seemingly had written amok. For this there was some excuse. Only the day before His Holiness had placed L'Action on the index ex-purgatorius, had banned it to most of its royalist subscribers who are Roman Catholics...
From Bucharest Princess Helen of Greece, consort of Carol, announced last week that she would soon take their son, Crown Prince Michel of Rumania, with her to Rapallo, Italy, where he will pass the rest of the winter...
...high head. Anybody who gets the habit of shaking hands the way he has can't last long. Indeed I no Ionger can call him an asset to the state. We've spleened on him ever since he began to spend government money on a house detective for his son at college. That's carrying things too far. Anyway he should have sent John to our own state university and kept the money in the state...