Word: widowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years Hattie Wyatt Caraway sat quietly in the U.S. Senate, doing nobody any harm. The small, 66-year-old widow never seemed to change; she always sat still and demure in her billowy Victorian black dress; when spring came, she simply added a white embroidered collar. Her habits and mind were simple and domestic. Outside "Miss Hattie's" door in the mahogany-&-marble Senate Office Building stood a little row of milk bottles. While her male colleagues bellowed and fumed and passed fateful legislation, she sat and worked crossword puzzles; often just sat listening, for hours. When she voted...
...legislation against lobbies. At his death in 1931, Arkansas politicians could not agree on a successor; Mrs. Caraway was appointed to her husband's office. The next year Huey Long, eager to extend his political domain, brought his sound trucks into Arkansas and helped "the poor little widow lady" to become the first woman elected a U.S. Senator.* Thereafter, Huey Long could usually count on Senator Caraway's vote. In 1938, without Long, she squeezed by for her second elective term. By that time most housewives in Arkansas had received letters, often enclosing Government canning bulletins, from "Miss...
...most dangerous corn I've ever listened to" emanates from Mrs. Henry Topping (TIME, April 10), who speaks over Radio Hsinking. Apparently an elderly U.S. widow, she tells of visits to Americans in Japanese prison camps, of their belief that there is no sense fighting the "delightful" Japanese. Grim: "She sounds like somebody making fun of your mother, and you resent...
Married. Mrs. Ernest Lundeen, 48, comely widow of Minnesota's late isolationist Farmer-Labor Senator Lundeen; and Oregon's isolationist Republican Senator Rufus C. Holman, 67, defeated last May for renomination; in Minneapolis. Senator Holman courted Mrs. Lundeen between sessions of the Republican National Convention, where she appeared (on the fringes) with the stentorian, fascistic Rev. Gerald L. K. Smith...
...policy, not to murder him. But leggy Miss Stanwyck is already dreaming of homicide and a gay widowhood financed by her husband's insurance money. In a trice infatuated Salesman MacMurray lends a hand. He tricks her husband into signing up for an accident policy which guarantees his widow double indemnity. Together they murder him and make the murder look like a fall from a moving train. After the crime comes retribution in the form of Edward G. Robinson...