Word: widowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next morning Widow Ewilda Gertrude Miller Robinson arrived and gazed her last on Joe Robinson whom she had married 40 years before when she was a backwoods belle and he a 24-year-old lawyer beginning to make good in Lonoke. Behind the casket stood a bank of palms ordered by Bernard Baruch, over it a blanket of orchids, gardenias, gladioli and delphinium, also from Mr. Baruch who had ordered $500 worth of flowers...
...noon Joe Robinson's casket stood on the floor of the Senate only a few feet from his empty desk. The President and his Cabinet occupied a group of chairs at the left of the Senate aisle. On the right sat the widow, family and friends including Mr. Baruch and Harvey Couch, the Arkansas utility tycoon. Senators, Representatives, Justice Pierce Butler representing the Supreme Court, Army, Navy & Marine officers, diplomats jammed the chamber. A soprano sang Lead, Kindly Light, the Reverend ZeBarney Phillips, chaplain of the Senate, read the funeral service. The Reverend James Shera Montgomery, chaplain...
...urge him to appoint at once a pro-Administration Senator in Joe Robinson's place. This was a delicate problem because Governor Bailey has his eye on the seat and must soon call a special election to fill it. Already it had been suggested that he appoint Widow Ewilda Robinson, which would make Arkansas the first State to have an all-female representation in the Senate, since Arkansas' other Senator is Widow Hattie Caraway. Widow Robinson would almost certainly be less of a nonentity than Widow Caraway, but there were other reasons which made Governor Bailey reluctant...
...detectives. Hale opens the door to jump, but looking up at him are the faces of the lynch mob. There is nothing much left of They Won't Forget after that except Reporter Brook's mildly rueful comment to District Attorney Griffin after Hale's widow has called them a pair of murderers: "Now that it's over, Andy, I wonder if he really...
...When the widow of Levi Leiter died in 1913 she created a $600,000 trust fund of her own. She then had three living children. She provided that the income from the $600,000 should go to three selected grandsons, but the boys must live in Chicago half of each year and work for their grandfather's estate. When the last of Levi Leiter's own children died, the three boys would get the $600,000. But if they failed to do their duty by Chicago, the $600,000 would be divided among all the grandchildren, including seven...