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Maternal overprotection resembles an obsession neurosis, but Dr. Levy's 20 mothers were not neurotic. Practically all vere stable, responsible, aggressive, strongly maternal women. Frequently there was sexual or social incompatibility with the husband. Many of the mothers had serious responsibilities in their own childhoods, such as housework or taking care of brothers and sisters; some had been deprived of normal affection from their own parents. Any combination of these influences, on top of the natural maternal bent, was likely to produce overconcentration on a child. If the mother was over-stern, her child...
...Sniffed Australia's Minister for External Affairs, Herbert Vere Evatt: "The invitation to Japan to invade us is nothing short of an invitation to Japan to commit national suicide...
...have exonerated me of lecherous attacks on me by scurrilous people who have no heart for the toilers. These attacks vere attempts to destroy our movement and turn it over to outside interests. . . . Christ said: 'Forgive them for they know not what they...
Said one of the Council's Labor members, the brilliant "Red Judge," Herbert Vere Evatt: "It is unfortunate that early communiques suggested that the Anzacs in Greece were part of a large and fully equipped British Army. It is now known that this was entirely misleading...
Groomed for business, he went into politics by way of the Birmingham City Council. That was in 1911, the year he married Annie Vere Cole, and during his long climb to the top she encouraged, guided and warned him. She remembered names he forgot, supplied the human touch that was lacking in his personality. Although he was eclipsed for years by his more colorful half-brother Austen, just before Sir Austen's death he rose rapidly. When he succeeded Stanley Baldwin as Prime Minister in 1937, the London Star characterized him as "practical as a plumber, precise...