Word: wife
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Divorced. Mrs. Lois Knowlston Dodge Manning, onetime wife of Horace E. Dodge Jr., motor maker; from Lieut. Benjamin Franklin Manning. Grounds: extreme cruelty...
Jewelers remember him as the sallow, baldish, unhealthy looking little man who bought $2,500,000 worth of jewelry for his wife, pawned and redeemed it again and again as he traversed a career as full of ups and downs as a picket fence...
...Liberty National Bank in New York (Manhattan), and Mrs. Charlotte Bemiss Christian, niece of the late John Skelton Williams, onetime (1914-21) Comptroller of the Currency; at Richmond, Va. When the Titanic rammed an iceberg and sank in 1913, he rescued and later married Mrs. Lucien P. Smith, wife of onetime Representative Smith of West Virginia, who drowned in the disaster...
...Vatican City last week the sharp-eyed nuns who now inspect the costumes of women about to be received in papal audience,* refused to pass the wife and daughter of Panama's distinguished Foreign Minister J. Demóstenes Arosemena. Flushed and embarrassed these ladies hastily sought a modiste not far from the Vatican, bought gowns with longer skirts and sleeves, returned, were passed by the nuns, knelt and received the blessing of Achille Ambrogio Damiano Ratti, Pontifex Maximus, Pope Pius...
Martin John Insull, brother of Samuel Insull (utilities, opera) sat with his wife at dinner in his Highland Park, Ill., home while a thief entered his wife's bedroom upstairs and stole away with jewelry valued near...