Word: sons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Persona grata with the Nazi regime, no exile, Wilhelm's oldest son, Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor August Ernst, now 57, was discovered living quietly in Potsdam, near Berlin. Almost forgotten last week was the deep hatred which citizens of the Allies held for the Crown Prince, almost forgotten such famed cartoons as the one the Chicago Herald printed in World War I (see cut). Caption: "Drink...
Laurence Olivier, David Niven, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Rodin Rathbone (son), English reservists; Brian Aherne, Gary Grant, Charles Laughton, James Stephenson, Claude Rains, Errol Flynn, Donald Crisp, Richard Greene, John Loder, Directors Robert Stevenson and Alfred Hitchcock, able-bodied Britons all, and Raymond Massey, Canadian, prepared in Hollywood for a call to British arms. In Paris, Erich von Stroheim, cinemactor-director, who had early training in the old Austrian military, volunteered for the French Army, intended to join the American Volunteer Corps now being formed in Paris, if his offer were rejected...
Francis Neville Chamberlain, little-publicized 25-year-old son of Great Britain's Prime Minister, a $25-a-week chemical plant apprentice, was called up for service, joined the 69th Anti-Aircraft Brigade...
...code, that anything but reportorial matter would be in the public interest." Next day the isolationist New York Daily News, while not contesting Miss Thompson's right to be heard on the radio, commented testily: "We cannot help wishing that Dorothy Thompson's son, now about 10, were about 19 instead. If that were the case [she] might perhaps be somewhat less hysterical in her public utterances...
Born. To Harold LeClair Ickes, 65, U. S. Secretary of the Interior, and Jane Dahlman Ickes, 26, whom he married secretly in Ireland in May 1938, three years after his first wife died in an automobile accident; a 7-pound, 11-ounce son, her first child, his fourth; in Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore. Secretary Ickes had his parental jitters in an emergency Cabinet meeting in Washington...