Word: widowers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Presumably, she must be the widow of a half-brother of either the President or Mrs. Roosevelt. I was under the impression that neither President Roosevelt nor his wife had a brother or sister, half or otherwise. I have noted frequent references to each being an only child...
Case No. 2552. Henrietta Garrett did leave, however, a scribbled "request" to the manager of her investments, Charles S. Starr, who had increased the $6,000,000 left by Walter Garrett to $17,000,000 in 1930. Since then the estate has been fattened further. The note the widow left said: "Dear Mr. Charles S. Starr-Give you my estate and belongings which are named in my book per a/c the following amounts: Give to Henrietta G. Ferguson the sum of $10,000. . . ." Thus she gave away $62,500 to friends and servants, but omitted the residuary phrase...
Since 1933, Britain's dusty little Saturday Review was published by the country's reputedly wealthiest woman. Dame Fanny Lucy Houston, widow of a shipping tycoon. Lady Houston considered herself a Conservative, but made her otherwise mediocre weekly memorable for the blatancy of its attacks on Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin and Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, who she believed were plotting to sell out the British nation to the Bolsheviks. A plump, imperious person, voluble to an epic degree, Lady Houston died last month, her age, which she had kept secret, probably 65 to 70. Since no will...
...life interest in a $2,000,000 trust fund. Except for the $1,000,000 trust fund bequeathed to Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Foundation will eventually manage all the trust funds Banker Hayden allotted to relatives and friends, including a $30,000 annuity for Anita Stewart de Braganga, widow of the pretender to the Portuguese throne. To Hayden, Stone & Co. the executors were empowered to lend $5,000,000 so that the banking firm might avoid "any embarrassment" during its management transition. Not to be decided until the Foundation's four administrators meet is whether Banker Hayden...
Rubye Louise Nix Zioncheck, 21, onetime PWA typist, widow of Seattle's late eccentric Representative Marion Zioncheck, entered the University of Washington Home Economics School...