Word: mabell
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When she could get it, Betty's mother, Mabel Lum Thornburg, took daytime work on the assembly lines in automobile factories at 22? an hour. For a time, after she and the children had begun to share a Detroit basement flat with two other families, she worked as a "tackspitter," tacking upholstery into car seats. She would come home at night "with nails in her fingers where she'd missed." Says Betty grimly: "I made up my mind then that no one-no one-would keep us like that...
...Edinger, Research Paleontologist in the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology; Anne O'Hare McCormick, N.Y. Times Foreign Correspondent and 1938 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Journalism; Dorothy Fosdick, Member of the State Department's Policy Planning Committee; Belle Sherwin, a founder and first President of the League of Women Voters; Mabel Newcomer, Professor of Economics at Vassar and a former members of the UN Conference at Breton Woods; and Ruth Baker Pratt, first woman to represent New York State in Congress...
...home in Springfield, Mass, one evening last week, ten women gathered for a special kind of party. On a card table was a variety of household articles made and marketed by Stanley Home Products, Inc. The women were there to be sold; there to sell them was matronly Mrs. Mabel Hayden, one of Stanley's crack dealers, who had persuaded Mrs. Wright to turn over her house for the occasion...