Word: sons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Joachie Hubert, an unemployed Manhattan waiter, believes that a child who steals should be ruthlessly punished. When his 12-year-old son, Joachie Jr., stole $3 from his mother's purse, Joachie Hubert hung a sandwich sign over his son's shoulders, marched with him to school. The sign said: I AM A THIEF. I STOLE MY MOTHER'S MONEY...
Sidewalk spectators stared. Finally one of them halted Joachie Jr. He exclaimed: "Son, this isn't China. They can't do that...
...Distinctly not one of the gay-blade emperors of Imperial Rome was Tiberius Claudius Nero (42 B.C.-A.D. 37). Son of one of Julius Caesar's officers and a gifted mother, he was an impenetrable man with a powerful but slow-moving mind, a love of tranquil study. As a military commander he distinguished himself in the field, particularly against Germanic tribes in Gaul. According to Suetonius, the Senate erected a triumphal arch to Tiberius...
Born in Elizabethgrad in the Russian Ukraine, the son of a Jewish school teacher, Alex Gumberg migrated to the U. S. by himself at 15, became a licensed pharmacist. But he kept in touch with Bolshevik doings and returned to Russia after the Kerensky revolution. There he met, through William Boyce Thompson, Colonel Raymond Robin, head of the American Red Cross mission. In those troubled times Mr. Thompson could get no meat for his wolfhound. Gumberg got it., He became confidential agent for the Red Cross. Through the Red Cross he formed his enduring friendship with Judge Thacher...
Born. To Cinemactress Maureen ("Tarzan's bride") O'Sullivan and Scenarist John Farrow: their first child, a son; in Hollywood. Name: Michael Damion Farrow...