Word: widowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...away with four victims of arsenic poisoning on whose lives they had insurance (TIME, Feb. 13). After hearing the verdict, Herman Petrillo tried to slug the jury's forewoman, was dragged cursing from the courtroom. Judge Harry S. McDevitt ordered the arrest of Paul Petrillo (cousin) and the widow of a poisonee (two other widows were already in custody), and investigators began exhuming 70 bodies in graveyards of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York. Object: to prove that Petrillo during the past ten years had run an arsenic epidemic to collect upwards of $100,000 in insurance...
...years, drawing a $5,000 yearly pension from the Government and occasionally entertaining a few friends at bridge, has been a buxom dowager of 66 who once set the U. S. on its ear. That was in the fall of 1915 when as Edith Boiling Galt, handsome, middle-aged widow of a Washington jeweler, she consented to marry 58-year-old Thomas Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the U. S. This week Mrs. Edith Boiling galt Wilson once more made news when she published a big, chatty, contentious 360-page autobiography, My Memoir...
...contention, which started when Satevepost recently serialized excerpts from her story, Widow Wilson furnished plenty of material. Friends of Woodrow Wilson's faithful Irish Secretary Joseph Patrick Tumulty, now a high-powered Washington lobbyist, hotly dispute Mrs. Wilson's accounts that he 1) tried to get Wilson interested in the since exploded story that Warren Gamaliel Harding had Negro blood; 2) faked a Wilson endorsement of James Middleton Cox for the Democratic Presidential nomination in 1924. And, though by U. S. etiquette a President's wife is usually as sacred as a President, in the Washington smartchat...
...Some of Widow Wilson's stories which last week had Washington gossiping...
Died. Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya, 70, widow of Nikolai Lenin (real name: Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov), "Grand Old Woman" of the Russian Revolution; in Moscow. Aristocratic, indomitable little Krupskaya met Lenin, also wellborn, in 1894 while working for the revolution in St. Petersburg, married him few years later when they had both been exiled to Siberia. She took an active part in politics even after her husband's death, was admired by Stalin although she sometimes criticized his policies. Day before she died she celebrated her 70th birthday, received a hearty message from the Party's Central Executive Committee...