Word: sr
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...James Farley Sr. leased and ran a brickyard at Stony Point, N. Y., also kept a public bar in his home, behind a store front. Being the son of a saloonkeeper is no bar to the Presidency under the Constitution of the United States...
...California for Molly's health, after a nervous breakdown at 40 which kept her off the air for almost two seasons. Their California home is a modest, eight-room Ensenada bungalow with green shutters, and rooms for the two young Jordans, Jim Jr. and Katherine. Out back, Jim Sr., now about 45. has a workshop and a vegetable patch, just as Fibber has at radio's 79 Wistful Vista. But off the air Jim Jordan is everything Fibber is not. He is handy with tools, his garden produces and, on the side, he runs two lucrative, if Fibber...
Chilean-born (but Spanish by title) Marquis George de Piedrablanca de Guana de Cuevas, husband of Margaret Strong, granddaughter of John D. Rockefeller Sr., applied for U. S. citizenship papers in Toms River, N. J. Told he would have to renounce his title, he snorted: "Mister is good enough for me." In Manhattan, reporters discovered Arne Quisling, brother of Major Vidkun Quisling, leader of Norway's Nazi party and Hitler puppet. Said Brother Arne, who has been 15 years in the U. S.: "For me, I like it here. . . ." In Manhattan, Trapeze Artist Atrtrys Iwanows (of the "Daring Iwanows...
...After waiting a year for the case to come to trial, Wheeler was acquitted in ten minutes. As the verdict came in, a tele gram arrived from Washington telling of the birth of a daughter. Wheeler named her Marion Montana, the Marion after "Fighting Bob" (Robert Marion) La Follette Sr. On his 80th birthday, in Colum bus, Ohio, Jan. 26, old man Daugherty said he bore Wheeler no ill will, thought he would probably make a good President...
When U. S. Steel's directors sit down to their monthly meeting at 71 Broadway -looked down on by the portraits of J. P. Morgan (Sr. and Jr.), Henry Clay Frick, Judge Gary, Myron C. Taylor, George F. Baker-no swarm of Manhattan newshawks waits outside the door. Their monthly meetings are devoted strictly to business, not to making publicity. The directors hear about broad company policies from their youthful, silver-haired chairman, Edward R. Stettinius Jr., keep up with production and sales operations by listening to tough-fibred, gregarious President Ben Fairless, learn about fiscal problems from their...