Word: father
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Diana Forbes-Robertson Sheean, 34, offered an explanation of why she did not invite her two daughters, Linda, 13, and Ellen, 9, to the wedding when she remarried the girls' father, bestselling, globetrotting Author Vincent Sheean, 50, in London, four years after their divorce: "It's so difficult to have children around at a time like this...
...deeply religious but not a puritanical family, in which father Pugmire was second in command. In whatever dining room the family happened to be using along its gospel travels, father Pugmire always hung the motto: "Christ is the head of this house, the unseen guest at every meal, the silent listener to every conversation." Family prayers were said every morning and every night. Serious-minded Ernest read to improve himself, learned to play the euphonium. Occasionally he used his fists capably when the boys in the neighborhood taunted him about his parents being Salvationists...
...whose talents lay in administrative work, Ernest Pugmire was quite unlike his fiery evangelist father. As an administrator he advanced through the army's staff ranks, by 1942 had become a commissioner and boss of the army's Eastern Territory. Four years later he was nominated by the army's all-powerful High Council in London for the topmost army job: general of the International. It was a signal honor to be in the line of succession from William Booth to son Bramwell Booth,* to Edward John Higgins, to Bramwell's firebrand sister Evangeline...
...Ballington Booth, imperious second son of the imperious Booths, broke with father William and Bramwell and founded the Volunteers of America, which is much smaller than the army, is devoted to philanthropy and is not a church...
From the time he took over his father's lumber company and foundry in 1930, Kurth sought ways to make them bigger. Since his Lufkin Foundry & Machine Co. depended on outside companies for its castings, Kurth set up Texas Foundries, Inc. as his own supplier. It soon became the biggest Southern producer of malleable iron castings. The two companies now have combined sales of some $17.5 million a year...