Word: widowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...drawing room sat other kin of the late Mrs. Vanderbilt: Nephews Harold Stirling and William Kissam Vanderbilt and William Seward Webb; Brother-in-law Frederick K.; Sisters-in-law Emily (Mrs. Henry B. White), Edith (Mrs. Peter Goelet Gerry, widow of George Vanderbilt), Lila (Mrs. William Seward Webb), and Florence (Mrs. Hamilton McK. Twombly); Nephew Erskine Gwynne; Grandsons Cornelius, George and William Henry Vanderbilt and Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney; Granddaughters Gladys and Sylvia Szechenyi, Barbara (Mrs. Barklie McKee Henry), Cathleen (Mrs. Lawrence Wise Lowman), Flora (Mrs. G. Macculloch Miller), Grace (Mrs. Henry Gassaway Davis III) and Cornelia (Mrs. Eugene B. Roberts...
More like a golf cup. than a political post, the House seat of Louisiana's 6th Congressional District was last week put up for competition for the third time in ten months. Mrs. Bolivar E. Kemp, widow of the onetime incumbent, won the first leg in a Democratic primary (tantamount to election) railroaded through by the Huey Long machine (TIME. Dec. 18 et seq.). Three weeks later Jared Young Sanders Jr., 42, onetime State Senator and son of a onetime Congressman and Governor, was declared the victor in a "citizens' '' election staged by the anti-Long...
...Understand gentlemen, I am not accusing M. Pressard of any part in the Prince murder or even making such an insinuation. I am merely drawing the logical conclusion between what Judge Prince said and his death." The son and widow of Judge Albert Prince were far less circumspect. Through their lawyers last week they issued a 10,000-word statement, going all over the same ground and concluding: "After his interview with Judge Lescouvé, Judge Prince said to Max Buteau: 'Between Pressard and me, there is hatred to the death.' How is it possible not to place...
...Connell, a street-cleaner, to leave his beat, and make a speech ("The thing about it is, they dirty 'em and we clean 'em up and they dirty 'em again."-TIME, March 26). Head of the Clean City Committee is Mrs. Herbert Shipman. lively widow of the late Suffragan Bishop of New York. Not to be outdone by the O. C. A., Mrs. Snipman has now written a ballet, Litter in the Street, presented last week in Town Hall as the feature of a Children's Spring Festival. Children in Daisy Blau's Dance Group...
...years ago he returned to Germany to gain converts. Jailed in Cologne for an old debt he had forgotten, he got out by swearing a pauper's oath, returned to China followed by such neophyte Buddhists as a French perfumer, a filling station manager, a professor's widow, an Italian composer. Chao Kung opened a monastery of his own, drew crowds with his lectures in Chinese and English. But last year he was still restless. Resolving to carry on his evangelizing in the West, he growled: "I will stand no more nonsense from any government...