Word: widowers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fashioned linecut of the late great T. R. Such ignorance in far lands is not surprising but, as Franklin Delano Roosevelt's managers well appreciate, such ignorance is not confined to far lands. Last fortnight one Chester Burger, 11, of Brooklyn, N. Y. wrote to Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, widow of the 26th President of the U. S., requesting her autograph, praising "your cousin," the Democratic presidential nominee. Replied the Widow Roosevelt: "Franklin Delano Roosevelt is a distant [fifth] cousin of my husband. I am a Republican and voting for Herbert Hoover." Last week Widow Roosevelt at her summer home...
Died. Adele Neustadt Schiff, 53, widow of Mortimer Leo Schiff, New York philanthropist and international banker; of cancer; in Oyster...
Died. Katharine Medill McCormick, 79, daughter of Founder Joseph Medill of the Chicago Tribune, widow of U. S. Ambassador Robert Sanderson McCormick (Austria, Russia, France), mother of the late Senator Medill McCormick and of Col. Robert R. McCormick, the Tribune's present editor & publisher; of a lingering illness; in Versailles...
...boulders of Dogtown Common, part of Cape Ann near Gloucester, Mass., lately appeared carved legends such as "Prosperity Follows Service," "Be Clean," "Help Mother," "Get a Job," "Save." When one such marking, the simple number "31,"* was carved on a boulder on the property of Mrs. Leila Webster Adams, widow of Manhattan Architect Rayne Adams and descendant of early settlers, she rose up in protest, revealed the carver to be Roger Ward Babson, famed statistician. Explained Statistician Babson, whose family settled on Cape Ann in 1628: "The work I'm doing is part of an educational plan . . . which will...
Married. Mrs. Helen McMahon Brady, widow of James Cox Brady, financier, sportsman, philanthropist; and Charles Suydam Cutting, New York sportsman, cousin of New Mexico's Senator Bronson Cutting; in Gladstone...