Word: mothers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hoover Administration, Congress made all governmental salaries, including the President's, taxable. By 1944 taxes took more than half of the President's salary. In his twelve years in the White House, Franklin Roosevelt never got out of the red, but he had his own and his mother's fortune to fall back...
Moors was the brother of John F. Moors '83, who donated Mary Buckminster Moors Hall to Radcliffe last year in memory of their mother...
...shooting occurred on the vast plantation of Baker's mother where the Duke and Duchess of Windsor and other celebrities have been entertained. The plantation, located 12 miles north of Tallahassee, Florida, is a mecca for hunters...
When Mrs. Coolidge's father, mother, and husband died within 15 months of one another about 1915, Frederick Stock, then conductor of the Chicago Symphony, persuaded her to engage a house quartet to cheer her. Two summers later, when the Stocks were visiting her in the Berkshires, they went to a chamber music festival in Connecticut. At dinner that night, Mr. Stock suggested that Mrs. Coolidge's quartet should play at the festival. Her answer, "Why go so far; why not have it here?" was the beginning of the great scheme which has made the Berkshire Hills of western Massachusetts...
...irrationally optimistic mother who believes that "there isn't a situation in the world that can't be passed off with small talk," Miss Sidney in completely flighty and helpless; as the remade woman in the last act, she is a depressed lover beneath her maternal gaiety...