Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President's only child talked to her father & mother and got their approval. Last week Margaret Truman, soprano, had an apartment of her own in Manhattan where she will live with her mother's secretary, Miss Reathel Odum, while she practices for a concert tour in October. Margaret, who will be 25 next week (Feb. 17), expects to spend one weekend a month in Washington...
Actually, for all his old-worldliness, Medina was raised in Brooklyn, was called a "greaser" at public school because his father was Mexican (his mother is a D.A.R. of Dutch descent). He made the water-polo team and Phi Beta Kappa at Princeton, and was earning $100,000 a year as a lawyer before President Truman appointed him to the federal bench...
...Sick & the Jailed. At 23, Joseph Pehm was ordained and went home to Csehimindszenty, where his mother proudly watched him celebrate his first Mass. In 1917 he went to teach in the small town of Zalaegerszeg, later became its parish priest. The parish he took over was in poor shape. He immediately started building a new church and a new school. He kept four cows and distributed milk to the undernourished children. He spent much time visiting the sick and the jailed. Soon he became a prisoner himself. When Bela Kun established his four months' Communist reign of terror...
Soon after he became Primate of Hungary, a friend asked Mindszenty's mother whether she was happy over her son's rise. The old woman said: "I have been happy many times about my son, and happiest when he prepared for the priesthood. But I lamented over him when they led him to Esztergom...
...asked his mother to stay with him. Churchmen who visited them reported mother Mindszenty and her son to be calm and happy. Priests said that whenever government officials came to see the cardinal, he proudly held his hand higher & higher as they bent to kiss his ring...