Word: grandsons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bought by individuals, but they would make appropriate birthday presents, graduation presents, and wedding presents. If TIME continues to improve, they will be handed down from father to son, their value to the possessor increasing with time. In 1979 I can imagine a man of 70 saying to his grandson, "Here is a Subscription Bond for your graduation present. My father gave it to me when I graduated in 1929. The only condition is that you let me read TIME as long as I live. I hope you will keep this to hand on to your grandson in 2029." ARTHUR...
Died. John Dickinson, 12, of Chicago, grandson of Tart-time Secretary of War Jacob McGavock Dickinson; in Chicago; by accidentally hanging himself at play...
Chester Alan Arthur Jr., 28, of Santa Barbara, Cal., grandson of the late Republican President of the U. S., is a sailor on a freighter, intends to write a nautical novel. Last week, on shore leave in Philadelphia, he said he had supported Alfred Emanuel Smith in the recent election, had once been jailed in Boston for ballyhooing the Sinn Fein movement...
Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia, grandson of the onetime Kaiser, lately engaged to German Cinemactress Lili Damita, is listed as "Louis Ferdinand," student-laborer, in the Ford assembly plant in Los Angeles. He eats his lunches from paper bags. Last week he said he liked his job. Said he: "I'm just goofy-you understand that?-about it, although I do not know what my parents will do when they find...
...Kublai Khan, grandson of Genghis, Xanadu, who decreed a stately pleasure near the sacred river Alph...