Word: thompsons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...came back to the U.S. in 1948, married a telephone company executive named Loren B. Thompson, whom she had met when he served as a colonel of infantry in the Orient, and settled down as a housewife in East Orange, N.J. But she remained a super-active member of the Army's organized reserve, was often called upon to brief Army units heading for the Far East. Then this spring, she was summarily discharged from the reserves. Reason: she had a baby, thus making herself ineligible under postwar regulations which ban mothers of children under 18 from the service...
...Thompson renewed her attack. Last week, before the Senate's Armed Services Committee, she set out to prove that a woman should not be denied the opportunity to serve her country "solely because she performed the function for which our Creator intended her." She argued: "If business, labor and government cannot afford to lose their married women, how can the armed services afford to be so profligate...
...allowed to drop out if they wished. At week's end it was obvious that the Army would be a more restful institution if it took mothers back, baby carriages and all, than if it went on facing assaults from lady veterans as well trained as Mrs. Thompson...
Miss Warren called Manhattan's J. Walter Thompson Co. to tell them the news and ask them to cancel the ad. Reaching for a dram of old popskull, the admen said it was impossible. The pages in the magazines in which it was running had gone to press, and the ad could not be killed. As it blossomed out in magazines this week, Miss Warren took everything in the proper spirit. Said she: "I'm still going to go right on using Pond...
District Attorney George E. Thompson read the list of 24 students, and four each was represented by legal counsel present in the courtroom. Thompson then adjourned to separate chambers with the attorneys to arrange for continuance dates. Eleven of the men will be trial in the same court at 9 a.m. next Tuesday, though Judge Louis Green will probably be sitting, not Dever--The Massachusetts Governor's brother was the judge who presided over the first hearing last Friday...