Word: sons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Son James ("Jimmy's Got It") Roosevelt requested demotion from his rank of lieutenant colonel in the Marine Corps Reserve, which he held as a White House aide; asked to be made a captain instead. Reason: the rank of lieutenant colonel was too high for his "age and experience." Captain-to-be Roosevelt is 31. His resignation was promptly accepted, his appointment to a captaincy speeded...
Helping Chrysler explain its dilemma to the public was James Lee, a son of the late, famed Press Agent Ivy Lee (whom Laborites still remember as "Poison Ivy"). To the press and to dealers facing a shortage of cars at the start of their new season, Chrysler's President K. T. Keller sent a letter: "We are getting practically no production from any of our Detroit plants. . . . You cannot run a business on a sound basis and produce quality automobiles if men . . . take into their own hands the running of the plants." To bulbous, loud Richard Frankensteen...
...Archduke Robert, 24, second son of the late Austrian Kaiser Karl, was sent from Belgium to Paris by his brother Archduke Otto, 26, the Habsburg Pretender, with an offer to recruit a full division of Austrian refugees and send them to fight on the Western Front if Britain and France will announce as one of their war aims "restoration of Austria as an inde pendent State." Already in France with a similar proposal was Austria's onetime Heimwehr troop leader and Vice Chancellor, Prince Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg, onetime friend of Adolf Hitler, who recently ordered confiscated...
...place, (Czechoslovak citizen, is today in the front line. . . . The Allied aircraft will often appear over your towns* and will bring you encouragement and assistance. . . . Do not submit!" A Czech Legion of 1,000 to fight with the Allies was being enlisted in London last week by Jan Masaryk, son of Czecho-Slovakia's late great Founder-President Thomas Garrigue Masaryk. Son Masaryk, unlike Dr. Benes, does not believe in the re-creation of Czecho-Slovakiain the old sense but as a federation of Bohemia, Moravia and Slovakia within a customs union. Asked why he was not carrying...
...West End shopping section, the proprietress of a bakery whose husband is at the front celebrated by giving away all her bread and cake-not only free but without presentation of ration cards. Two hundred fellow office workers were treated to free beer by a Berliner who has two sons and a son-in-law at the front-the beer cost him a month's salary. Meanwhile at least one group of the Hitler Youth, after holding a special meeting to celebrate the Führer's latest triumph, rang doorbells and spread the news...