Word: grandview
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...phone rang in the oval study. It was Mary Jane Truman in Grandview, Mo. with distressing news. Old Mrs. Truman, the President's mother, had fallen from her bed the night before and broken her right...
...stayed about 25 minutes. Then, because Sister Mary Jane had "too many things to do," he went down the street to the Grandview Cafe for lunch...
Reassured, the President drove into Kansas City and spent the night at the Hotel Muehlebach. Next morning he was up at 5:45 for a stroll through the city's dark streets. After breakfast he drove out to Grandview again. At 2 p.m. he took off for Washington. He had another family duty ahead-a party for Daughter Margaret, who will be 23 this week...
...once the President could let himself go at mealtime. His mother had driven over from Grandview for dinner at the Truman house, so he would not have to save room for a second meal at her house. A third dinner he had faced last year turned out this time to be just a snack, with his aunt, Mrs. John T. Noland...
...President plunged into a quick conference on the coal situation, was expected to stay desk-bound for a while. But to every body's surprise, he flew 1,890 miles in 8 hours, 49 minutes for a two-hour Sunday visit with his mother in Grandview, Mo., on the eve of her 94th birthday. He found her "just fine." Last week the President also...