Word: mothers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hamilton insisted that he was white and that he had been born in California rather than Russellville (where records showed that a Clark Council Hamilton Jr., colored, had been born in 1928). His wife believed him, refused to listen to her mother's demands that she get a divorce. But her mother had a final weapon-she swore to a complaint against Hamilton...
...British nurse in charge at the hospital showed each mother her son, then took the babies back to their separate ward for the night. Next morning, both mothers were loud in their complaints that the babies had been switched. The nurse promised to look into the case, but did nothing...
After three days, Mother Shatis appeared satisfied with the fair, blue-eyed child she had been given as her own. She took Blue Eyes back with her to the mud-brick village where she lived with her husband. Panayiota stayed behind with the dark boy who, she was convinced, was not hers...
Last week, Panayiota was preparing to take her bonnie, blue-eyed lad to Scotland to live with John Gow's parents. In her village on Cyprus, mother Shatis had resigned herself to her loss. She had even grown to love the other child, she said, and father Shatis hoped that the dark boy, too, would bring him luck...
Last week the San Antonio school board met, announced that it had decided to ban all fraternities and sororities. Fraternity supporters hooted and howled when Garcia tried to make a speech. Some parents joined in. "Several years ago," screamed one mother, "boys died to preserve the ideals you are treading on." Cried one fraternity brother: "Do you want us to roam the streets and become juvenile delinquents...