Word: widowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...avenge the Custer massacre, and for the first time a miner's scalp was safe in Gold Run Canyon, site of the first prospecting. The rich lodes at Homestake soon grew richer as the shafts drove deeper. Astutely managed after George Hearst's death by his shrewd widow, Phoebe Apperson Hearst, and after 1914 by her cousin's son, retiring Edward Hardy Clark, who is still president, Homestake was for years a pillar of the Hearst fortune. "W. R.'s" block, now estimated at 14,000 of the original 42,000 Hearst shares, is worth about...
...Thinking Reed is a love story but few men will take it as a Valentine. The plot: Isabelle, half-U. S., half-French, is a very beautiful, quite rich widow at 26. She has come to France to get away from haunting memories of her aviator husband, recently killed in a crash. Thanks to her French connections she meets aristocratic, smoothly handsome André de Verviers, and because his physical attraction is extreme, takes him as a lover-antidote. At the time her story opens she has discovered that as a person she dislikes him intensely but cannot...
Relatives of Agnes Wahl Nieman, widow of the founder of the Milwaukee Journal and recent donor of three to five-million dollars to promote journalism here, yesterday contested the will of Mrs. Nieman in Milwaukee...
Engaged. Richard King ("Dick") Mellon, president of Pittsburgh's Mellon National Bank, nephew of Andrew William Mellon; and Mrs. Constance Prosser McCaulley, daughter of Manhattan Banker Seward Prosser, widow of Vance McCaulley, who was found dead in his Manhattan apartment last autumn, supposedly a suicide...
...Minneapolis and Minnesota officialdom. More recently, he had violently broken with his old political crony, Minnesota's Farmer-Laborite Governor Floyd Bjornstjerne Olson. Editor Liggett's murder, therefore, put Governor Olson in something of a spot, whence he attempted to extricate himself by joining Liggett's widow in asking Attorney General Cummings to send Department of Justice agents into the State to investigate the crime. Attorney General Cummings, who once called Minneapolis a "poison spot of crime," prudently demurred...