Word: mothers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...father was a minor official in the Commerce Department's Coast & Geodetic Survey. His mother, descendant of Switzerland's first consul general to the U.S., was a strong-willed woman with a firm belief in the stern principles of Calvinism and a secure knowledge of what was right and what was wrong...
...Ohio, mother of Presidents, is the only one of the 48 states which does not have a street named after it in the nation's capital. But when Ohioans last week proposed renaming Georgetown's Canal Road, the Georgetown Citizens' Association rose up in wrath. It had been Canal Road since George Washington's day, and the Georgetowners wanted to keep it that...
...raise of 15 francs (4½?) an hour. At an indignation meeting in the Bourse du Travail, a dark-haired Lanvin girl excitedly waved her pay envelope, showing 6,138 francs (about $18) for two weeks' work, and yelled: "I've got to support my mother with that!" Other girls showed mimeographed letters sent by their bosses warning them to return-or else. In front of one shop, a bunch of pickets gleefully embraced amused gendarmes, cheerfully exchanged au revoirs and à bientôts as the gendarmes left their posts for lunch...
Divorced. By Anna Roosevelt Boettiger, 43, F.D.R.'s only daughter and onetime newspaperwoman turned magazine editor, who now gives a daily radio commentary with her mother: second husband John Boettiger, 49, erstwhile Hearstling; after 14 years of marriage, one child; in Phoenix, Ariz...
...Turkey, where close trading is a centuries-old art imbibed with mother's milk, the No. 1 mule trader is squat, swarthy Mahmout Safyurtlu. Last year, when Mahmout heard that EGA would pay for several thousand mules for Greece, he perked up his ears. Mahmout scurried to Athens, where he learned that the mules must be small, strong, good at climbing hills, not less than three years old, not more than nine, and 80% of them younger than seven...