Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Governor Thomas E. Dewey hustled his family on board a train at Albany for a trip west. Ostensibly, the trip was a vacation to visit his wife's family in Sapulpa, Okla., his mother in Owosso, Mich, and to show his sons some of the grandeur of the West. Actually, as eleven reporters traveling with him knew, it was a chance to confer with dozens of G.O.P. national committeemen, make news at the Governors' Conference in Salt Lake City, and line up Dewey delegates for the Philadelphia convention next June. Tom Dewey at last...
There would be quite a few empty chairs. Finland was the first country to turn down "provisionally" the invitation to Paris. Other disappointed satellites would follow. Czechoslovakia and Poland, however, wriggled restively in Mother Russia's embrace. Czechoslovakia's Communist Premier Klement Gottwald prepared to journey to Moscow for advice...
Daughter, Daughter. She had red hair and green eyes, and a camellia-white complexion. They called her Magda, a good name for a voluptuous beauty of her type. She joined the Greek Orthodox Church, though her mother was a Roman Catholic Viennese dancer and her father a Jewish merchant (variously described as a moneylender, druggist, innkeeper, garageman). The story goes that Papa Lupescu was very fond of Carol, and liked to refer to him and Magda as "my children." Once, when Carol's brother Nicolas recklessly proposed to marry a commoner, Papa Lupescu chided Magda: "Daughter, daughter! What kind...
Indignant, the pastor took the name and address of the greedy farmer. Next Sunday he told his congregation that a farmer in his parish had taken a gold wedding ring from the mother of five hungry children for 60 lbs. of potatoes, denounced the action as a disgrace. If the guilty man did not bring him the ring, said the pastor, he would announce his name from the pulpit the following Sunday...
Advice. In Laurens, S.C., Harold Crowe, 14, dutifully asked his mother's advice about a plan he had; was told to "just suit yourself, son," promptly picked up his twelve-gauge shotgun and shot his sleeping father dead...