Word: widowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Widow's Pension Before the Senate last week came bill No. 319 to increase the pension of Irene Rucker Sheridan. Her present pension: $2,500 per year. Proposed the bill: $5,000. The Senate pensions committee recommendation...
...action of the committee reducing the amount is a mistake. Mrs. Sheridan is the widow of General Phil Sheridan who had a wonderful record?Mrs. Sheridan is well along in years and in all human probability she will not enjoy the advantages of a pension for many years to come. I ask that the bill be approved in the original amount...
Gallantly the Senate snubbed its pensions committee, unanimously voted the widow of one of the nation's five generals $5,000 per year.* The bill must be acted upon by the House before she gets the money...
...this was admittance to college in general and Harvard in particular may depend, not upon the intelligence or preparation of the applicant but in his financial power to lavish expenditure upon the College Widow and its like. That such methods may suttice admission is unfair to candidates without Wall Street backing. It is also unfair to Harvard, in whose Freshman Class the present system places a group of men whose work, or rather lack of it, lowers standards, bother deans, and in general forms an unhappy fringe insecurely perched upon the local scene by the perpetual support of hired outside...
...affairs. But in many cases this step will merely result in forcing the do-or-die applicant to spend another eight months in tutoring school in preparation for the next series of quizzes. The only way, then, for Harvard to protect herself from students completely dependent on the Widow is to refuse admission to students trained by Widow methods, that is students from schools who make a specialty of passing College Boards...