Word: martha
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...North Carolina-Virginia epidemic of infantile paralysis last week threatened to stir up an epidemic of hysteria. Dr. Martha Edith MacBride-Dexter, Pennsylvania's Secretary of Health, persuaded Governor Earle to persuade Secretary of War Dern to forbid the mobilization of Virginia and District of Columbia National Guardsmen for summer maneuvers in Pennsylvania. Virginia and District of Columbia troops therefore played war in their own backyards...
...Vegecandy." Before Depression, burly, white-haired James M. Washburne, 80, operated all the Martha Washington Candy Stores in New York City. He thought nothing of paying $250 for a single suit of clothes. He bought his wife so many jewels her friends began calling her "Diamond Anne." They lived in a $4,700-a-year apartment in Manhattan, had two houses and a farm in New Jersey, a winter home in Florida. In a good year the Martha Washington stores each grossed $6,000 a day and Mr. Washburne's income was $50,000 a year...
...Depression deepened, Candymaker Washburne's stores sank into debt, were closed. He dismissed his chauffeur, sold his houses, pawned his wife's jewels. Martha Washington candies vanished from public sale in New York. Last year, penniless, Mr. Washburne moved to a one-room flat. There he spent his days puttering with candy on the kitchen stove, finally concocted some sweets made of fresh fruit and vegetables. Each day he slipped out of the flat, went to Times Square. There he tied a placard on his chest, stood by subway exits selling candies made from corn, spinach, beets, carrots...
...MARTHA WINSTON FANE...
...Latin poet. After a year of post-graduate work he went to Princeton as a research fellow in astronomy, made his abilities apparent to kindly Henry Norris Russell. With Princeton's Ph. D. in his pocket, Dr. Shapley went on to Mt. Wilson, taking with him his bride, Martha Betz of Kansas City, who became something of an astronomer herself and helped him with his papers...