Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Women's Rights. For 20 years, Massachusetts' women have sought the right to sit on juries. Last week they renewed their demand, led by socialite Mrs. Leslie B. Cutler, Representative from Needham, divorcee, mother of five. Before a stony-faced committee she argued that if women are good enough to serve in war, they are good enough for juries. Male ridicule had beaten the proposal in previous years. ("Imagine a woman of Cleopatra's type being locked up with eleven men overnight.") Finally the wisecracks came. Roared a chivalrous lawyer...
...Your father is now in London with the American Red Cross. Your mother and your sister, Gretchen, have received the snapshot of you and the General...
...Captain "Smith" went to Springfield to deliver your Navy Cross to your mother . . . just before Christmas...
Fortnight ago Father Hugh Calkins, a leader of Chicago's perpetual novena of Our Sorrowful Mother, himself a dispenser of a popular medal of the same name, thought it time to say a few words on the subject. In his midget monthly, Novena Notes, he declared...
...declined for a while to obey a Presidential request that they return to work because "it's a phony; the President's not in Washington." A Portland, Ore. reporter was informed by his wife that the President had been in Africa: she had heard it from her mother, who had heard it from her second husband, who had heard it at his Rotary luncheon. One slip was made inadvertently over the Associated Press wirephoto talker system. A Midwest member got on the wire, blatted the news to all wirephoto points by asking the New York office: "What about...