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...Winfield (5? & 10^?) Woolworth died in 1919, he owned approximately one quarter of the stock of this giant company. He left his entire estate to his wife, Jennie. Since the latter, aged 66, suffered from premature senility, the estate was administered by a committee consisting of their two daughters: Helena (Mrs. Charles McCann), and Jessie (Mrs. James Paul Donahue), and Hubert Parson, president of the company (1919-32). When Jennie Woolworth died in 1924 the estate was divided equally among two daughters, Jessie & Helena, and one granddaughter, Barbara Hutton, whose mother, Edna Woolworth Hutton, had died...
...Swore in Montana's John E. Erickson who resigned as Governor to be appointed the late Thomas James Walsh's successor by Lieutenant Governor Frank H. Cooney. Federal Judge George M. Bourquin of Helena protested the legality of the swap...
When the Duke of Manchester's second wife, Kathleen Ethel Dawes Montagu, sued through the estate's trustees to get the Manchester jewels, furs and laces from his first wife Helena Zimmerman Montagu, the florid Duke told British reporters. "My trouble is that I've been a mug, always too trustful and willing...
Entering the Senate in 1913 as a Helena attorney, "Tom" Walsh, grim of mien and gruff of manner, quickly developed as a great constitutional authority. He fought notably for the confirmation of Louis Dembitz Brandeis, first Jew on the Supreme Court. Organized Labor is still grateful to him for his efforts to exclude unions from the anti-trust laws He led the fight that ended only when Michigan's wealthy Truman Newberry resigned from the Senate seat he was accused of buying. His relentless investigation of the Teapot Dome and Elk Hills oil leases finally put Albert Bacon Fall...
...Helena, Mont...