Word: widowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Economist Keezer's associates on the board was William Trufant Foster, first president of Reed College. When Reed was founded in 1911 by the widow of a steamboat tycoon as a cultural centre for the Northwest, William T. Foster had been called to get it going. He built a surprisingly intellectual college with no intercollegiate athletics, no fraternities, complete student self-government. In 1920 President Foster resigned* and thereafter Reed coasted along under competent but not always vigorous leadership. After Messrs. Foster & Keezer had been working on the Consumers' Board for six months, Mr. Foster...
Messiah. A painting of Dr. Townsend stood last week at the head of the stairway to the Stevens' Grand Ballroom and pictures of him sold fast at 50? apiece. With the pleasant-faced little woman who was a widow with seven children when he married her, the gaunt, grey, gentle one-time country doctor moved among his followers receiving the reverence accorded an authentic Messiah. He it was who first had the gleam which promised to give old people ease, young people jobs, drive poverty from the land forever. Since early last summer he and Mrs. Townsend traveling mostly...
Fierce-Arrow is that rarity among corporations, a grass widow. It was married to Studebaker in 1928 but during Depression both parties might well have pleaded nonsupport. Divorce came in August 1933 when Studebaker receivers sold Fierce-Arrow to a group of Buffalo businessmen for $1,000,000. Nine-month sales in 1935 were 583, far behind the 1,399 sales for the same 1934 period...
Snowy-thatched Speaker Henry T. Rainey died last year (TIME, Aug. 27, 1934). Last week's difficulties were due entirely to Widow Rainey's desire not to hurt anybody's feelings. One artist after another begged her permission to paint the official portrait. Kindhearted, she told each & every applicant to go ahead. Result: pictures of Speaker Rainey flooded the office of Chairman Keller until by last week there were ten in all. Nine of them, bearing a marked resemblance not only to the late Speaker but to each other, lined the Committee's office wall...
Jubilee (words & music by Moss Hart & Cole Porter; Sam Harris & Max Gordon, producers) was facetiously described by its creators during rehearsals as a cross between The Merry Widow and As Thousands Cheer. In common with the former, it is laid in a fabulous kingdom found only in operetta. But in comparison with the latter, about the best that can be said is that the same man wrote both books. Jubilee chiefly satisfies the eye. In design and color, the costumery by Irene Sharaff & Connie Depinna probably surpasses anything so far seen on Broadway. But when Jubilee tries to please...