Word: widowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...weeks ago Mrs. Kahn of California, one of the two widows* in Congress, made her maiden speech, (TIME, May 10). Last week, perhaps spurred on by Mrs. Kahn's reception, perhaps en-heartened because Mrs. Kahn had broken ground, the other Congressional widow, Mrs. John Jacob Rogers of Massachusetts, who last year was elected to the seat vacated by the death of her husband, made her Congressional debut...
...What Congresswoman is not a widow...
...Katrina Trask Alliance was named after the widow of Spencer Trask, who subsequently married Mr. Peabody. Last week he said of the newly adopted Mrs. Waite: "She is a very able woman...
Married. Mrs. Horace E. Dodge Sr., widow of one of the two Dodge brothers who founded the famed auto manufactory of that name; to one Hugh Dillman, actor, divorced husband of famed actress, Marjorie Rambeau, at Detroit, Mich. Mrs. Dodge is asserted to have recently purchased for $3,000,000 the Joshua S. Cosden estate at Palm Beach, together with its furnishings, works of art, etc., valued at $1,000,000. At the wedding was Edward Townsend Stotesbury, famed Philadelphia capitalist...
...envisioned by many of his intimates as anxious to testify to his long intimacy with the potent statesman by bequeathing Wealth to Power. All Britain was a-tiptoe when the will was probated at Jersey, England, late in the week. Sir Robert left his entire fortune to his widow...