The Mother of George Washington: Radio Address

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Pagina 10 - Associate yourself with men of good quality, if you esteem your own reputation : for it is better to be alone, than in bad company.
Pagina 8 - United States Commission for the Celebration of the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Birth of John Marshall, 1956.
Pagina 8 - D. FESS.* Vice Chairman -Ohio ARTHUR CAPPER Kansas CARTER GLASS Virginia MILLARD E. TYDINGS Maryland House of Representatives WILLIS C. HAWLEY Oregon JOHN Q. TILSON Connecticut JOSEPH W. BYRNS* Tennessee R. WALTON MOORE Virginia Presidential Commissioners MRS. ANTHONY WAYNE COOK Pennsylvania MRS. JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN ' Colorado HENRY FORD Michigan GEORGE EASTMAN * New York Executive Committee THE SENATE AND HOUSE COMMISSIONERS C.
Pagina 9 - ... day in silent thought and prayer to prepare herself for the family worship and the day's events.
Pagina 8 - ... Oregon Simeon D. Fess, Ohio, Vice Chairman John Q. Tilson, Connecticut Arthur Capper, Kansas Joseph W. Byrns, Tennessee Carter Glass, Virginia R. Walton Moore, Virginia Lee S. Overman, North Carolina PRESIDENTIAL COMMISSIONERS Mrs. Anthony Wayne Cook, Pennsylvania Mrs. John Dickinson Sherman, Colorado Henry Ford, Michigan Hanford MacNider, Iowa C. Bascom Slemp, Virginia Wallace McCamant, Oregon Prof. Albert Bushnell Hart, Massachusetts Bernard Mannes Baruch, New York ASSOCIATE DIRECTORS Lieut....
Pagina 10 - Bepublic, brought no added elation to his mother. It was his duty. She saw nothing else for him to do. When he came to tell her of it, all his future honors were shadowed by her realization that this was her last meeting with the child of her heart. Her mother love sought to enfold him in all her love, protection, and security that her prayers and blessings could invoke.
Pagina 10 - But with all her austerity she was a wise and loving mother who set her face against every diversion in life to devote herself entirely to her children. Her entire interest was centered in and revolved around the care and development of the best that was in them.
Pagina 9 - Like other mothers of great men, Mary Ball Washington sought divine guidance through prayer and through her Bible ,' and other deeply religious writings. Her associations from early childhood were of a deeply religious nature, for the earljk settlers staunchly adhered to church doctrine and to the estabi«.
Pagina 9 - February 22, 1732, when her first born was placed in her arms. She chose for her child the name of George in loving regard for her guardian, George Eskridge, an eminent lawyer of Virginia.
Pagina 10 - George was only eleven when his father died but upon him she placed the old patriarchial duty of saying grace at table and prayers at night and morning. From this early age his mother expected him to assume and carry such responsibility as the circumstances of life brought to him. Under her pious guidance he could not have evaded any service that she deemed his duty.

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