Word: widowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...large clan in his Administration: Son James, Secretary ($10,000); late First Cousin (mother's side) Warren Delano Robbins, Minister to Canada ($10,000); late Fifth Cousin, Henry Latrobe Roosevelt, Assistant Secretary to the Navy ($10,000); Mrs. Irene de Bruyn Robbins (Warren Delano Robbins' widow), assistant chief of the State Department's Foreign Service Buildings Office ($6,500). Two others, Uncle Frederick A. Delano (Vice-Chairman of National Resources Committee & Chairman of National Park & Planning Commission), and Cousin William A. Delano (member of National Park & Planning Commission) hold honorary posts without...
Only a small minority of concertgoers are chamber-music fans. But, like most minorities, they are dogged. Among the most tenacious of the lot is Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, a portly, good-natured, partly-deaf widow who spends her summers near Pittsfield, Mass. Twenty years ago, when the World War was at its peak...
...Widow Coolidge assembled a congress of chamber musicians at her South Mountain estate in the Berkshires. This get-together became an annual event, the Berkshire Chamber Music Festival, attracted visitors from all over...
Frau Alwine Dollfuss, widow of Austria's assassinated Chancellor, was discovered living incognito with her children, Eva, 11, and Rudi, 7, in a Welsh hamlet, waiting for American friends & relatives to arrange a refuge...
...magazine: Crime Detective for October; in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minn. The banners: Hennepin County Attorney Ed Goff and Ramsey County Attorney Michael Kinkead. Authority: State "anti-defamatory" statute protecting the mem ory of dead men. Reason: an article, "Murder in Minneapolis," by Edith Liggett, widow of crusading Editor Walter W. Liggett, murdered in Minneapolis Dec. 9, 1935, in which the late Governor Floyd B. Olson of Minnesota is attacked. Also attacked by Mrs. Liggett: County Attorney Goff, now running for reelection, and other Minneapolis politicians. Widow Liggett, 37, now lives in Manhattan, supports her son and daughter by writing...