Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eleanor Roosevelt, objecting to a proposal by Presidential assistant Jonathan Daniels for a national Old Maid's Day, said that she was also against "Mother's Day, Father's Day . . . and days for this and that and everything." Since "they are all aimed at honoring the family," she offered a suggestion of her own: "I think they . . . ought to be lumped together as a sort of 'Family Day' when we could remind people of parents' duties to children and vice versa." In her newspaper column, she offered a quick glimpse at Roosevelt family life...
Adultery? Blackmail? Clinically, such inseminations have been notably successful. Johns Hopkins' Dr. Alan Guttmacher has reported success in no less than 20 out of 36 attempts. But the problem of possible charges of adultery against the mother, illegitimacy against the child, blackmail by donors of semen remains unsolved. For their own as well as their patients' protection, U.S. doctors usually seek refuge in a rigmarole of anonymity and secrecy...
...plains and the distant mountain and jungle towns, Sears salesmen will probably follow the trail blazed by sellers of the Singer Sewing Machine Co. (N.J.). In many of the remote huts of farmers who still labor with oxen and wooden plows are ancient Singers now passed from mother to daughter as a family heirloom. With such people as these Sears men will leave their revered catalogue, an artifact they hope will come to mean as much in Mexico as it does in the rural...
...Burbank, Calif., Mrs. Jane O'Gorman, mother of a two-year-old son, bought a small cottage on a quiet street. It was not unlike all the other small cottages on the same shaded street, but to Jane O'Gorman it was salvation...
Just Living. But for most U.S. service wives it was hard enough just having their husbands torn away. In Atlanta, a young war wife, mother of a two-year-old daughter, said...