Word: mothers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...newshawk who had discovered that last June in Santa Fe they had filed adoption papers for the child, she said: "We were going to make the adoption public. . . . We wanted the world to believe until that time that Beulah is ours." In Toronto Mrs. Martin Kenny, 35, mother of 16 (some stillborn), who told newshawks during Toronto's Stork Derby: "I never felt like this before. . . . I am going to nave eight-like I told you-octopuses" (she later won a $12,500 consolation prize), was arrested last month on charges of setting her house on fire four times...
...simply a matter of mechanics. If we treat the baby as a passenger and the mother's pelvis as the passageway, a larger passenger will have more difficulty coming into the world than a smaller passenger. Therefore, oversize infants are more apt to cause difficult labor...
Married. Rexford Guy Tugwell, 47, most handsome original Brain Truster, now chairman of New York City's Planning Commission;* and his onetime assistant, Grace Falke, 30, director of National Youth's art projects; by Mayor LaGuardia; in Manhattan. Mr. Tugwell's first wife, Florence, mother of his two grown daughters, divorced him three months...
Died. Monroe ("Mun") Barrow, 58, father of Heavyweight Boxing Champion Joe Louis Barrow; in the Searcy Hospital for the Insane at Mount Vernon, Ala. Father Barrow had been hospitalized since 1911 but married Champion Louis' mother during an absence from the hospital. The Barrow family, who have quietly kept up relations with the father, allowed the story to circulate that his whereabouts were unknown, that he probably died years ago. Reported to be a prized possession of Father Barrow was an autographed picture: "To my father, Monroe Barrow, from his son, Joe Louis Barrow." Champion Louis' relatives last...
Died. Mrs. Flora Call Disney, 71, mother of Cinemanimator Walt Disney; asphyxiated by gas fumes escaping from a leaky furnace; in Hollywood. Her husband, Elias, 80, also overcome, was expected to recover...