Word: splivalo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rheba Crawford ("Angel of Broadway") Splivalo. On Sister Aimee's side remain her son Rolf, her business manager Giles Knight, her attorney Willedd Andrews...
...rained upon her the year past, with her onetime lawyer, her one-time publicity woman, her onetime business manager, her daughter Roberta, her "Ma," Mrs. Kennedy, and finally with the equally flashing-eyed woman whom she hired as associate nearly four years ago, Mrs. Rheba Crawford ("Angel of Broadway") Splivalo (TIME...
...women† of California. Harried by ladies of wealth and prominence in both ends of his commonwealth, unsmiling Governor Rolph had for some time considered appointing two social welfare directors to placate both sections. In the end, however, he took the bull by the horns, gave Mrs. Rheba Crawford Splivalo of San Francisco (his own end of the State...
...Splivalo, then unmarried, achieved prominence in Manhattan as the Salvation Army's "Angel of Broadway." Her evangelical fervor led to her arrest for blocking traffic. After that she left...
Army, saying that the organization had resented the publicity of the case. She went to Florida, married a newspaperman who later divorced her because of her "unswerving devotion to evangelistic work." Shortly thereafter in San Francisco she married rich, polo-playing Clubman Ray Splivalo, whose former wife, a niece of Mrs. Claus A. Spreckels (sugar), had divorced him because of his "unswerving devotion to sport and convivial companions." As Director of Social Welfare, Mrs. Splivalo will have charge of orphans and other dependents upon the State, also of juvenile delinquency, old age pensions. Announcing her appointment, Governor Rolph said that...