Word: husbands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Worker of 1938. As the No. 1 Missus of Relief, they named Mrs. Stanley Jorgensen of Provo, Utah. Provo merchants had chipped in $100 to pay her way to Washington so she could ask for more WPA money to go into storekeepers' tills. Mrs. Jorgensen's husband supports her and two children on $44 a month, of which he pays $15 for rent on a single room, $18 for groceries. A Mormon, Mrs. Jorgensen said her church's famed work-for-relief system is a flop, declared an infant daughter died because of "the conditions...
Fortnight ago Mme Skobline was brought to trial. Over 60 witnesses trooped to the stand and piled up evidence against her. She said, among other things, that her husband "waited for her" outside a dress shop for an hour and a half the day de Miller disappeared. Last week, although the fate of General de Miller has never been conclusively established, she was convicted of aiding in his kidnapping and sentenced to 20 years of hard labor, ten subsequent years of exile from Paris. Said La Plevitskaia, tears rolling down her cheeks: "I am alone in the world and completely...
...INFORMATION IS CONFIDENTIAL." But both papers continued to get editions out with police assistance. Most distant striker: American Sports Writer Jim Gallagher, who was in New Orleans for a baseball meeting. Notable strike breaker: Margaret ("Maggie") Sikora, who has been working as a Herex stenographer since her "Model Husband," Rudolph, was acquitted of killing her sweetheart. At week's end, 46 American strikers announced through a Hearst spokesman that they were going back to work, adding "It was fun while it lasted!" Guild headquarters insisted their main lines were holding fast...
...Leave It to Me, under the stage name of Alexis Bolan. Given the choice of quitting office or his job, the Prince said: "I am a professional actor," resigned from the Nobility Association. Said his wife: "It is too bad that some members . . . failed to understand that my husband really is serving the interests of loyal Tsarists ... by making a fool of the character he plays...
...Harry M. Daugherty out of the Cabinet. Few years later he was sent to Atlanta for three years for conspiracy against the Dry Law. In 1928, he published a book, The Strange Death of President Harding, quoting the late President's wife as admitting she had poisoned her husband. In 1932 Rascal Means was put behind the bars for good for diddling rich Mrs. Evalyn Walsh McLean out of $100,000 on the pretext that he could find the Lindbergh baby...