Word: widower
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Publisher William Dargie of the Oakland Tribune died. Publisher Dargie had married a beautiful, improvident Spanish woman named Herminia Peralta, whose great-grandfather had once owned, by land grant from the Spanish Crown, nearly all the territory now covered by the cities of Oakland and Berkeley. To his widow Publisher Dargie left a half-interest in the Tribune, with the privilege of raising money to buy the other half at a court sale to settle his cash bequests. Needing cash herself, Widow Dargie got it from a friend of her husband, Congressman Joseph Russell Knowland...
...loan with which he bought the other half of the paper. Result of these transactions was to make Joe Knowland and Herminia Peralta Dargie joint owners of the Tribune, with Knowland holding voting control (to cover his $65,000 loan) and acting as publisher and president. Publisher Knowland and Widow Dargie became fast friends...
While Publisher Knowland ran the paper at a tidy profit, Widow Dargie went to Spain, was welcomed at court, visited the family of one Captain Antonio Rodriguez Martin. Widow Dargie took a fancy to Captain Martin, who was the exact age of her dead son, and took him to California. Captain Martin made an investigation of the Tribune, to see to it (so he said) that her interests were protected...
After the arrival of Captain Martin the friendship between Widow Dargie and her publisher cooled. Anonymous letters reached the U. S. Department of Labor urging his expulsion. Joe Knowland went to Washington. In 1927, and again in 1928, Captain Martin left the U. S. When he returned he had an appointment as vice-consul for San Leandro (a suburb of Oakland). He painted the Spanish coat-of-arms on the side of Mrs. Dargie's automobile, stuck a Spanish flag in the radiator...
...never very large, had dwindled somewhat in recent years. It has 171 members, who pool their possessions, employ some 70 other people on occasion. Like many another eccentric sect, it has a rival, and in its native Benton Harbor, Mich.-the House of David "As Reorganized by Mary Purnell," widow of its founder "King Benjamin." Mary Purnell specializes in tourist cabins, tourist-trade souvenirs. Judge Dewhirst runs the four famed House of David baseball teams, spry outfits all, a fruit-packing plant, his own tourist cabins and a cocktail room. He has paid some social security taxes to the Government...