Word: widowers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cook, ran a restaurant in Chicago while studying law. Today with a salary of $12,300 he lives in the same cheap little house he occupied when first chosen mayor. When Woodrow Wilson died in 1924 the City Council drew up a resolution of condolence to the widow of a "great American," asked Mayor Hoan to sign. He refused: "I never did think Wilson was a great American and I won't be a hypocrite by subscribing to such a resolution." For four years he loudly mocked Herbert Hoover's attempt to bring back prosperity. A regular attendant...
...Sedalia, Mo., in Mrs. C. L. Baker's specially-refrigerated parlor, lay the month-dead body of her husband, awaiting completion of a mausoleum. Explained Widow Baker: "I couldn't bear to think of having his body covered with dirt, so I just brought it home...
...expected to be about $140,000,000, of which the British Government will take one-half in death taxes. His will, longest in British history, bequeaths to employes who have served in his companies 14 years or more a month's salary plus 25 percent; to his widow $750,000 and a tax-free annuity of $150,000; to his adopted daughter, Mrs. Winifred MacPherson, $3,000,000 outright and $3,000,000 in trust;* to his son, Sir John Reeves Ellerman, $3,000,000 outright, $10,000,000 in trust and the residue of the estate. The will...
...mentioned was the fact that the fast was partly due to an American woman, Nila Cram Cook, 22, left a widow by a Greek with a four-year-old son, who last year became Gandhi's disciple, was detailed by him to work among the Harijans (Untouchables) in Bangalore, got into unscrupulous hands, contracted debts and a bad reputation, was recalled...
...Greenway in Army breeches, boots, crop and shirt. Arizona chose this Yaleman, Rough Rider, A. E. F. colonel, rancher and copper tycoon as one of its two most distinguished citizens, had his statue made and presented to the Government. Last week the youngest State started John Greenway's widow on her way to the Capitol and to a seat in the House of Representatives not 100 yards from her husband's statue. Arizona Democrats nominated Mrs. Greenway to be their State's lone Representative-at-large, succeeding Lewis Williams Douglas, now Director of the Budget. So great...