Word: widowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kelly, widow of a city court judge and mother of two teenagers, had served as a Democratic legislative analyst at Albany, will be the ninth woman in the present House. She based her ten-point platform on the Fair Deal, urged full aid to Israel and, in passing, thumpingly approved the Brooklyn Dodgers...
Though earnings of the family-owned Ford Motor Co. have always been and still are a mystery, some facts about its dividends and ownership came out last week. In a report to Detroit's Probate Court, Clara Ford, widow of Henry the First, reported that the company paid out two dividends amounting to $4.50 a share for the year ending last July...
...feel sure nobody else can know," says Eleanor Roosevelt in casual explanation of why she wrote the second volume of her autobiography. For more than four years, while Franklin Roosevelt's housekeepers and bodyguards, speechwriters and Cabinet members have been carrying their manuscripts to the publishers, his widow has said little about him beyond some references in her syndicated newspaper column. In This-I Remember, she tells her story of the Roosevelts' private life in the White House...
Alfred Stieglitz was the best photographer ever to come down the pike. Until he died in 1946, the spindly, black-caped little man was also a prophetic educator in the cause of modern art. His widow, Painter Georgia O'Keeffe, has carried on his educational work as executrix of his will by dividing Stieglitz' brilliant art collection and his own even more brilliant photographs among six widely spaced institutions: Manhattan's Metropolitan, Chicago's Art Institute, Washington's National Gallery, the Library of Congress, the Philadelphia Museum and Fisk University (for Negroes) in Tennessee...
This impassioned plea was received last week by Neuroanatomist Wendell J. S. Krieg, of the Northwestern University Medical School at Chicago. The sender was a 66-year-old Montreal widow who had just read newspaper reports of Krieg's paper, New Horizons in Brain Research. The Montreal widow was not alone. By week's end, 43-year-old Neuroanatomist Krieg had received nearly 100 similar letters from blind, deaf and crippled people from Constantinople to California...