Word: widowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Granted an annual pension of $5,000 to Mrs. Lois L. Marshall, widow of one-time (1913-21) Vice President Thomas Marshall...
Great traveler that he was, Theodore Roosevelt's world-wanderings have been rivaled, perhaps eclipsed, by those of his widow. Since his death, on Jan. 6, 1919, Mrs. Roosevelt has traveled some 115,372 miles, as follows...
...rumors which last week named Mrs. Hert as potential Secretary of the Interior gave as her qualifications for this position business ability, political experience, services to the party. Widow of the late Alvin T. Hert of Kentucky, for many years National Committeeman, Mrs. Hert has been since 1924 vice chairman of the Republican National Committee, State chairman of the Republican women of Kentucky, and in charge of organization of Republican women throughout the country. She is also chairman of the board of the American Creosoting Co., founded by her husband, and is said to have increased its business 30% within...
...Soviet churches for years the slogan : RELIGION is OPIUM FOR THE PEOPLE The second feature of last week's new anti-religious campaign was to release a series of articles by the most famed and heeded woman in Soviet Russia, a woman known simply as KRUPSKAYA. She, a widow, would be called in other lands, "Mrs. Lenin." Last week Relict Krupskaya wrote: "The need is imperative that the State resume systematic anti-religious work among children. We must make our school boys and girls not merely non-religious but actively and passionately antireligious. . . . "The home influence of religious parents...
Cotton Mather, whose father was in College in Dunster's time paid a tribute in the "Magnalia" to the learning piety, and saintliness of the first President. Of his humaneness we have a few precious contemporary records. Dunster married the widow Glover, whose first husband brought over the famous printing, first in the English colonies. With the widow, Dunster acquired the press--which was operated in his house, on the site of Massachusetts Hall...