Word: mothered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...addition to being tense, Cleveland's most wretched citizens were undoubtedly very hungry. One destitute mother of seven children who was expecting an eighth fed her family through neighbors' aid. The menu: breakfast, bread and tea; lunch, spaghetti and bread; dinner, bread and salmon. The children shared a quart of milk. A 76-year-old woman who said she had not had a square meal for six days waited from 5 to 8 a. m., for a relief station to open its doors. Another fainted, was taken to a hospital for treatment, then released. A Mrs. Florence Barindt...
Last week in honor of Mother's Day, Secretary of War Woodring urged every U. S. soldier to write a letter to his mother. Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt said that flowers on Mother's Day were "sweet and nice," but something ought to be done for the 14,000 mothers who die every year from childbirth. A Manhattan tobacconist displayed a selection of women's pipes and four men in Philadelphia were arrested for breaking into a greenhouse and stealing 2,000 Mother's Day carnations...
...Manhattan the Golden Rule Foundation * held a contest for American Mother of 1938. Mrs. Grace Noll Crowell of Dallas, Tex. just nosed out Mrs. Eddie Cantor. Mrs. Crowell has three children and has written 1,900 poems, a large number of them about the Home. Last week she arrived in Manhattan with her husband, was put up at the St. Moritz, given a medal, presented to Mrs. James Roosevelt, Mayor LaGuardia, Grover Whalen. Said Mrs. Crowell: "Womanhood is fundamentally sound...
Anna Jarvis is the 60-year-old Philadelphia spinster who invented Mother's Day. Whenever she thinks of what the flower shops, the candy stores, the telegraph companies have done with her idea, she is disgusted. She has even incorporated Mother's Day to help keep unscrupulous florists and confectioners from using her patented trademark for commercial purposes. But "nobody," she says, "pays any attention to law any more...
Once she was arrested for disorderly conduct for interrupting a Philadelphia meeting of American War Mothers, whom she accused of profiteering on Mother's Day carnations. In 1934 she kept James Aloysius Farley from putting "Mother's Day" on his special 3? Whistler's Mother stamp, which she said was just another racket. Last week on Mother's Day she contented herself with denouncing a Manhattan "Mother's Peace Day" parade and a "Parents' Day" meeting in Central Park. (One of her current slogans is "Don't Kick Mother out of Mother...