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There was the mayor's well-run Margaret Hague Maternity Hospital, at which Jersey City mothers get the finest treatment at low rates. Recalled Hague: "A kitchen table in a dingy tenement was my delivery room. My mother carried me about on a pillow for three months...
...many a time long ago. One sentimentalist in the audience whispered: "Maybe they'll go home together." It was sentiment, but not romance, that had brought Ruth St. Denis from California to help Shawn raise money for scholarships on which returning soldiers could attend his Jacob's Pillow (Mass.) Dance Festival...
...breath held to the prayer's end. Then his blond head rolled sideways on the pillow in utter exhaustion...
...Secure on the Home Front. The big, soft pillow used to smother the May-Bailey bill was another bill whipped up by West Virginia's New Dealing Senator Harley M. Kilgore, whose constituency is heavily weighted with labor votes, mostly United Mine Workers. The Kilgore measure would hand the manpower problem over to Paul V. McNutt's War Manpower Commission (which has fumbled it from the beginning). It would give neither WMC nor anyone else the authority needed in the crisis. Labor and management have come out for the Kilgore bill...
...forthright organization, picked up by Allied troops in captured German positions, read as follows: "Dear Front Soldier: When will you come back on leave? . . . Back at home we know of your heroic struggle ; however, we do understand that even the bravest get tired and that they need a soft pillow, tenderness and real pleasure...