Word: sons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Interior.† Then, as later Senate investigations revealed, Secretary Fall received a mysterious "loan" of $100,000 on Nov. 3, 1921, from Edward L. Doheny, potent head of the Mexican Petroleum Co. The money was delivered to Secretary Fall in cash in a satchel by Mr. Doheny's son. With it Secretary Fall purchased the finest ranch in New Mexico. On Dec. 11, 1922, Mr. Doheny's company leased the Elk Hills oil reserve from the Government. On March 4, 1923, Secretary Fall resigned his Cabinet post...
Like a stern grey cat clawing feathers one by one from a gaudy canary Dictator Stalin of Russia has spent eleven months mercilessly divesting of his powers the once great Gregory Zinoviev, "spiritual son of Lenin," "bomb-boy of Bolshevism," arch-director of plots in every land to subvert world capitalism...
...politican Uncle Dave, and a quart of something-or-other to put Tommy over for the winning score. The plot is as old as the theatre. There's a little French play of one act in which two old fathers conspire to marry the daughter of one to the son of the other. The key line is classic, "Marriage without obstacles isn't tempting to two such young simpletons." So the fathers fight, the children refuse to accept the feud as final separation, and Romeo-and-Juliet-like they defy the quarrel. The young lady is being abducted, her lover...
...Arthur Twining Hadley, '76, William Howard Taft, '78-as in the forefront of the drive. But, as everyone knows, a University drive depends for its success primarily upon the wits, the diplomacy, the oratory, the industry, of its President-in this case, James Rowland Angell, smart son of a smart father, the late famed President James Burrill Angell of the University of Michigan. Poor Columbia University, whose student fees pay only 40% of its maintenance cost, received only $80,000 donations through its alumni fund last year. In order to provide against future impoverishment, William Vinton King, Chairman...
West Point learned last week that its Commandant Campbell B. Hodges had been chosen president of Louisiana State University. Louisiana rejoiced to have secured an able, handsome native son...