Word: euphemia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Industrialist John C. Virden, who had resigned his job in the Commerce Department because his daughter Euphemia had a job at Tass (TIME, May 31), heard some kind words last week. Commerce Secretary Charles Sawyer asked him to come back. Harry Truman added his blessing, said Virden was being sacrificed to "political expediency." With that, Virden withdrew his resignation, went back to the top desk in Commerce's Office of Industry Cooperation...
Crawford got off a letter to Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer demanding Virden's resignation. Three days later, Virden, a quiet, capable Cleveland manufacturer who called himself "almost violently anti-atheist-Marxist," resigned. His dark-eyed daughter Euphemia was indeed employed by Tass, as a clerk and teletypist. An earnest, idealistic girl, she had gone to Sarah Lawrence College, became interested in Marxism. No amount of argument or entreaty from her father had done any good. So far as he (and the FBI) knew, she was not a card-holding Communist. But when she took the Tass job, Virden...
Married. H. H. Maharajadhiraja Raj Rajeshwar Sawai Shri Yeshwant Rao ("Junior") Holkar Bahadur of Indore, 34, glossy, multimillionaire ruler of 1,513,966 souls; and Euphemia Watt Crane, 29; he for the third time, she for the second; a few hours after his divorce from Marguerite Lawlor Branyen, onetime Minneapolis nurse; in Reno...