Word: widower
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Germans, bursting with health, who arrive in high good humor for their yearly emotional spree, the Parteitag. Announced as Adolf Hitler's "honor guests" this week in Nürnberg were 100 certified Jew-baiting Arabs brought especially from Palestine and Africa, and Frau Mathilde Ludendorff, widow of the great German Wartime strategist. Today she zealously crusades for her own unique doc trine: "The priests of Tibet are gradually conquering the world. Our German people must resist the temptations of these rulers of the Roof of the World whose aim is to make the Germans their slaves...
Arkansas's Hattie Caraway, who started her political career as a protégée of Louisiana's Huey Long, was attacked by her Senatorial opponent, Representative John L. ("No Rubber Stamp") McClellan, for furthering it by becoming a yeswoman for Franklin Roosevelt. Placid Widow Caraway's chief campaign plank was that Arkansas is distinguished as the only State to have a woman in the Senate. Arkansas distinguished itself by nominating (i.e., electing) Democrat Caraway again...
...Wilmington estate, to establish a foundation for Delaware's crippled children and aged poor. For this foundation, the $300,000 mausoleum will be the architectural centre. It was reported last week that as soon as workmen finish waterproofing the vaults, Jessie Ball du Pont, A. I.'s widow, may have a section of Nemours' high wall knocked down to allow public inspection of the tomb...
Maurice Hindus' father was a Jewish kulak, engaged with great resignation in liquidating himself while Lenin and the Bolsheviks were still down-at-heels in London. When he died, his widow had to go into the vodka-selling business in competition with the Government monopoly. In 1905 the Hindus family went to the U. S., rented a couple of rooms on the lower East Side of Manhattan. Maurice did not like the smells of the city. At his first chance, he took a job as farmhand in the upstate town of "Mount Brookville." There, on page 120, Green Worlds...
...display, testimonials, speeches, luxury, built so many homes and farms that his vast estate was finally in danger. He planned Stanford University as a memorial for his son, died soon after it opened, with his affairs in such bad shape that it barely got through its first years. His widow took up his long quarrel with Huntington, modeled her life on that of Queen Victoria, called on Huntington shortly before her death to make peace with him. That cynical old millionaire's office was so poorly furnished that he had to send out to get a chair...