Word: mothers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Living on relief, she did not even apply for an allowance for her new son. To Gerald's half brothers and half sister, he was her sister's child; from their mother's behavior, they learned to treat him as someone different and shameful. To anyone who might catch a glimpse of Gerald playing on the third-floor back porch (dressed in girl's clothing), he was Mrs. Sullivan's own daughter. He had the run of the apartment when the family was home, but he was never allowed out on the street, never went...
After the police took him in, Gerald's hair was shorn, he was dressed in boy's clothing, and sent away to a children's home. His mother was charged with neglect. Sobbing, she said: "I sinned and had to bear my cross." The fact was, Anna Sullivan had made a child bear her cross...
...Baltimore & Ohio Railroad was sued for $50,000 by the mother of one of two men who held up a B. & O. streamliner in West Virginia. Mrs. Ruth Ungar complained that her boy had had a few when he got aboard the train. He was allowed more drinks in the diner, became "intoxicated and insouciant," and that's what led him to armed robbery, she argued. She didn't mention that George was on probation from an Ohio reformatory or explain why he was packing a pistol...
...Mother-in-Law, Too. Catholic Action reaches into every town, every slum, every factory and every village. Its agents are a strangely assorted phalanx-schoolteachers and schoolchildren, lawyers and factory workers, nuns and union leaders. At Catholic Action headquarters, pink-cheeked girl secretaries race through the long, whitewashed corridors, barely dodging pale, serious priests. They all take their orders from Catholic Action executives...
...world's youngest mother is generally conceded to be Lina Medina, of Peru (TIME, May 29, 1939), who gave birth to a 6-lb. boy, by Caesarean section, when she was four years and eight months old. The youngest U.S. mother is a matter of dispute. The American Medical Association, which keeps fairly haphazard, uninvestigated records of such events, has listed the youngest U.S. mother as a ten-year-old Illinois girl who gave birth to a full-term baby...