Word: sons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have so spread the fear of oldsters that the next Plan vote in Congress will be different. For his radio fund he asked $1,000,000, raised dues to 1½ per day. (Dues last year were 25? monthly, brought in only $153,147.) Secretary-Treasurer Robert C. Townsend (son) reported that the Townsend National Weekly ($2 per annum) finished the year with $32,103 surplus. The Townsend Foundation, a contingency fund raised by contributions and birthday balls, had a $28,315 surplus. "Time and tide are fighting with us!" shouted California's Senator Sheridan ("Ham & Eggs") Downey...
Lest the Doctor die still waiting, the convention designated Son Robert to carry on after...
Four days after his inauguration he collapsed, discovered that he had an ailing heart. His wife died. His son and secretary, Richard, sadly embarrassed him by talking too much and out of turn. And midway of his first Legislature in Sacramento, Culbert Olson had learned enough to moan that the Laborites and assorted liberals who concerted to elect him had made a disastrous mistake. They let Republican conservatives retain control in the Senate, Democratic conservatives in the lower Assembly. Before it adjourned last week after the longest (133 days) biennial session in California history, California's Legislature...
...near when there will be a Thompson in every infantry squad, a chopper or two in every armored car. Pacifists still object to war, but few of them still object to arming against it. Old General Thompson, living among his memories in the modest home of his son at Great Neck, L. I., will have some advice to give as an unofficial technical consultant. At 80, he thinks his knowledge may come in handy...
...Henry Richman started the business in Portsmouth, Ohio in 1853-25 years before it moved to Cleveland-often wholesaled his suits and overcoats in trade for pig iron and salt. After his three sons got into the company it really grew. Son Charles Lehman (who died in 1936), "the merry one," became president. Son Henry Centennial (who died in 1934), "the quiet one," became secretary-treasurer. "Mr. N. G."-"the grave one"-became chairman of the board. "Mr. N. G." in 1903 hit on the profitable idea of selling Richman Bros. $22.50 suits direct to wearer. Today the company operates...