Word: maidens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...maiden name from Hanff should change...
...wide system of Federal employment agencies to bring men and work together. In 1913 Miss Perkins married Paul C. Wilson, a secretary to the late John Purroy Mitchel, New York's reform mayor. They have a 16-year-old daughter. Though no Lucy Stoner, Mrs. Wilson kept her maiden name in public so as not to embarrass her husband with her political activities. Her elderly mother always introduces her as Mrs. Wilson and as such she will be carried on the Federal payroll. Mr. Wilson is now a financial statistician...
...Chancellor Hitler, who can play the piano and prefers to play Wagner, sat through a musical commemoration of the 50th anniversary of Wagner's death. A bachelor and only 43, Handsome Adolf has often been rumored engaged to Frau Winifred Wagner, 35, an English-born widow whose maiden name was Williams, and who is the relict of Genius Wagner's son Siegfried. Greeting Frau Wagner formally though courteously, Chancellor Hitler left her with the stereotyped phrase, "Auf wiedersehen, Gnädige Frau...
...sent him to the House in 1902, Carter Glass, a small-town editor like his father, was assigned to the Banking & Currency Committee. Of finance he knew nothing but was bent on learning all. Ten years later he emerged as the committee's chairman ready to make his maiden speech before the House. What he had to say on the Federal Reserve bill (then called the Owen-Glass measure) filled 14 newspaper columns. Thereafter he was silent for 30 months. This year in the Senate, where he is now recognized as the ablest legislator on banking matters, he talked...
Protesting against publication of an aesthetic advertisement, Ruth Hale, prominent Lucy Stone Leaguer (maiden name users) wrote a warm letter to The Nation, signed it "Mrs. Heywood Broun...