Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...note that Labor Leader Preble . . . was not impressed by "the song & dance about [Stefan's] mother and sister being persecuted and murdered...
Looking at Bill Boyle, Truman declared: "I am as happy as I can be, of course, that my lifetime friend-I have known him ever since he was a kid; I knew his mother before him and she was one of the best Democrats that Missouri ever produced-is the national chairman of the Democratic Party." Bill Boyle beamed...
...average citizen in California, Oregon and Washington voted for pensions with something of the attitude of a nightclub sot listening to Mother Machree-it was hard to be critical because the words were so sad. Furthermore many of the old folks had a legitimate case. But this summer thousands of taxpayers were recalling their own generosity with purse-clutching alarm. The Pacific Coast had become a minor-league welfare state of its own, and new pension and welfare plans seemed to be pushing the states toward the brink of bankruptcy...
...Mother: "A Compound fracture...
Little Wheeler, who started the whole thing, was a "mudlark" who worked the Thames for the leavings of the tides. He didn't know much, but one of the things he knew was that the Queen was the mother of her country; motherless Master Wheeler made up his mind to see her. So past the Windsor Castle guards he slipped one foggy November night, into the castle yard, and then, startlingly, down into an open coalhole. When the grimy urchin eventually groped his way upstairs and surprised the Queen at her dinner table, she forgot her composure sufficiently...