Word: widowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...King of Egypt, if he expects to keep his throne, must be educated and reared just about as was Farouk I, recently hailed by the British press when he visited London as "The Most Perfectly Brought Up Boy In The World." Aged four he received a pretty Yorkshire widow, Mrs. Ina Xaylor. as his nurse-governess. She remained his governess until he was 15 and the Egyptian Parliament voted $80,000 to defray the expenses of himself and suite during the Crown Prince's first year of education in England. With Egyptian guards bristling all over the place, Farouk...
...Josie Bishop is a small, bright, sun-browned widow with four grown children. Twenty years ago she moved to California's Mojave Desert from New Mexico, arriving with "a can of beans, a loaf of bread but no butter." She owns a patch of mining territory 27 miles north of Mojave, near wild, scenic Red Rock Canyon. Her claim to this land was recently in litigation, was cleared a few weeks ago after the case reached the California Supreme Court. Last week it looked as though Mrs. Bishop's troubles were over. Newsstories from Southern California made...
...from Fusion Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia who is up for re-election next fall (TIME, Aug. 2). Left, By Automan Roy Dikeman Chapin (Hudson Motors), onetime (1932-33) U. S. Secretary of Commerce; an estate of $7,311,616. After the deduction of minor bequests, one-third goes to his widow, Mrs. Inez Tiedeman Chapin, the other two-thirds to his six children-three hoys and three girls...
...three descendants of Inventor Johann Gottlieb Benjamin Siegert, a retired Army surgeon who lived in Venezuela. Angostura-Wuppermann Corp. was started in 1879 by Adolf Wuppermann's father to take over the U. S. Angostura agency. When George Wuppermann died in 1915, the presidency passed to his able widow who ran the company until she died last September...
...more railroad bonds foreclosed since 1865 many had a "decree value" for claimants, though no notice was ever given of payments to their owners or trustees. The Depression rather delighted Mr. Smythe with the prospect of numberless new depreciated issues, but he died in 1930 leaving his widow such an accumulation of odd securities that his estate was virtually impossible to probate...