Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...story revolves around a rural young lady who, because of urban finances, takes a job as a maid in the home of a young congressman and his politically wise mother. Some sixty minutes, a Swedish massage and numerous political shcunnanigans later, the former domestic finds herself running in a congressional race against the man supported by her former employers. To complicate matters further, an indiscretion committed by the aspiring congress-woman in the first reel and long since forgotten by everyone, including the audience, comes back to plague her campaign...
...John W. Davis, Major General William J. ("Wild Bill") Donovan, Senator Carl A. Hatch, and General Electric's Philip D. Reed, called for U.S. support for a U.S.E. Their declaration, assembled by handsome, black-haired, internationalist Count Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi (son of an Austrian father and a Japanese mother), said: "The alternative ... is a Continent permanently divided . . . by an artificial and arbitrary line of barbed wire...
...Eskimo idea of what it takes to feed a baby on Baffin Island is different from that of a mother in Ontario. Since the Eskimo boy early learns to stalk his meals he needs a rifle, but the Government says no rifles can go to children under ten. Last week the council was faced with a poser: some Eskimos wanted to pool their allowances to buy a boat -to help get food for their children. The council was not sure. It put the question over, to see if the money could not be raised elsewhere...
...Manhattan's lower East Side. In his championship days he was so good on defense that he got through many a bout with his well-oiled hair still impeccably parted. He held the world's lightweight title from 1917 to 1925, when he retired undefeated because his mother told him to. Having lost most of his savings in the crash, he tried a comeback; it went the way of all boxers' comebacks and Jimmy McLarnin knocked...
...Ford stock he held-55%-was disposed of in two ways: his 94,955 shares of voting stock which control the company were left to his four grandchildren, Henry, Benson, Josephine and William, and their mother, Mrs. Edsel Ford. (Together they already hold 41.5%; Mrs Henry Ford holds 3.5%.) The 1,804,140 shares of nonvoting stock were left to the Ford Foundation, a charitable organization set up in 1936. (It had already been left the nonvoting stock of the late Edsel Ford...