Word: widowers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Received from the Pensions Committee a bill to give Mrs. Helen Herron Taft, widow of the 27th President of the U. S., a $5,000 annuity...
...Little Widow MacDougall started business in Manhattan at 41 with $38 and a coffee pot. She picked up things as she went along...
Curly Son Allan went to War; Widow MacDougall did War work at home. In 1919 Allan returned to home and business; mother & son opened a shop in Manhattan's Grand Central Station. In addition to coffee, tea & cocoa they sold Spanish, Italian and English pottery and tea sets...
Treasure Hunt. Few weeks ago Pilot William H. Graham and Mrs. Edna Christofferson, widow of the early barnstormer Silas Christofferson, took off from Seattle to seek the Baychimo, icebound, abandoned, somewhere in the Arctic Ocean. Aboard it, they believed, was "a million dollars worth of furs." Last week airplanes were sent out from Vancouver to hunt for the treasure-hunters, missing somewhere in British Columbia. Meanwhile Captain Sydney A. Cornwall, master of the Baychimo, arrived in Fairbanks and revealed that the fur cargo had already been salvaged by crew and natives, that he was sure his ship had since sunk...
...handling money. When last week his will was filed it was found to contain rigid rules. In these lay the foundation for his investment policy, but only the foundation. For no rules can tell when to buy or sell. Absolute discretion in that was given to his four executors (widow, daughter, son, brother...