Word: minas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senator from Montana, was more excited last week about taking a wife in Havana than about his seat in the Cabinet. Long a widower, he flew to Cuba where he was the guest of Ambassador Guggenheim. At her suburban villa before 30 witnesses he was married to Senora Mina Perez Chaumont de Truffin, fiftyish, socialite widow of a wealthy Cuban sugar planter. Senator Walsh met his bride in New York two years ago, courted her mostly by mail. One of Mrs. Walsh's two stepdaughters is the wife of the Mayor of Havana. The other is the widow...
Married. Thomas James Walsh, 73, Montana's senior U. S. Senator, Attorney General in the Roosevelt Cabinet; and Mina Perez Chaumont Truffin, wealthy relict of a Havana sugar broker; in Marianao, suburb of Havana, Cuba...
...employes). The children of his first marriage (to Mary G. Stilwell, died 1884) are Mrs. Marion Estelle Edison Oser of Norwalk. Conn., relict of a German officer; Thomas Alva Edison Jr., consulting engineer to Edison industries; William Leslie Edison, 53, inventor, of Wilmington, Del. The children of Mrs. Mina Miller Edison, who is mentioned in the will as having been "adequately provided for," are Charles Edison, 41, president of Thomas A. Edison, Inc.; Mrs. John Eyre Sloane of Llewellyn Park, N. J.; and Theodore M. Edison. 35, research chief in his father's interests. Closest to the great inventor...
...policewomen. Practically all are muscular women, married and graduated from social work. Mrs. Lola J. Baldwin of Portland, Ore., thinks she was the first U. S. policewoman. Mrs. Alice S. Wells of Los Angeles, first (1915) president of the International Association of Policewomen, thinks she was the first. Mrs. Mina C. Van Winkle of Washington, president since 1919, ignores the kudos of such priority. Last week she insisted that more communities employ women to deal with arrested women and children below eleven. She would have policewomen take over the work and duties of the Traveler's Aid Society...