Word: berthas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Built-in Maid Service." Next day Ike and Mamie motored across Washington to the CBS television studios, there sat down in a living room set to chat about campaign issues with seven ladies chosen by G.O.P. Assistant Chairman Bertha Adkins. The special show had been geared for women voters; nudging The Big Payoff from its daily spot, Ike and his questioners aimed at women across the nation. The questions were routine-what about the draft, the cost of living, the chance of another depression? But Ike caught the spirit of the occasion, with easy grace enjoyed a 29-minute parlor...
...such homes in the U.S., caring for nearly 150,000 people. But many of the "beautiful country estates'' are firetraps, inadequately adapted for hospital use. Grim evidence of that fact was furnished last week in Puxico, Mo. There, in a 50-year-old wood-frame house. Mrs. Bertha Reagan, 53, a practical nurse, ran a convalescent home that technically conformed to state laws even though there was neither full-time nurse nor night attendant nor fire alarm. One night last week fire swept through the hallways of the three-story home. Twelve people were killed: Mrs. Reagan...
...elevator at the rostrum is being installed to adjust the speakers' height to the cameras (which are hard to move, what with delegates about). Instead of rows of dignitaries clogging the platform, only a few committeemen and VIPs will be onstage-against a bare backdrop. ¶ Republican Bertha Adkins, assistant to Chairman Leonard Hall, is handing out TV-inspired advice to the ladies: no large-brim hats or veils ("they might keep the televiewers from recognizing their delegates"), nothing white next to the face ("detracts from the skin tone of TV images"), no big-striped dresses or shiny jewelry...
...visited by officers of the neighborhood improvement association, who "started questioning us and demanding that we sell to them." The shattered windows fresh in his mind, Rouse agreed. The sale price was $18,500, or $2,000 more than he paid; in return he was to move his wife Bertha, 70, his daughter Merle Evelyn Hickman and her sons Alfred, 10, and Paul, 7, within 60 days. While the sale was being closed, a crowd of 500 milled outside; in a campaign that would have shamed racist South Africa, doorbells had been rung through the neighborhood in an effort...
...Bertha and ladies," he said, "it is always for me a special privilege to address the women of this party. First of all, for a very practical reason, they tell me there are more women in the U.S. than there are men. But secondly, I have the most deep conviction that a political party can be called such only if its whole purposes are soundly based in some moral and spiritual values. The women of this nation are more concerned in their day-to-day work, I think, than are men with these values. They have the job of rearing...