Word: wife
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roosevelt approves The Birth of a Baby and because she approves divorce under some circumstances, she was taken to task in Boston last week by Mrs. Charles Feehan, president of Boston's League of Catholic Women. Declared Mrs. Feehan: "It is most unfortunate, unfair and dangerous for the wife of the President of the United States to make apodictical [absolutely certain] pronouncements that give offense to a large part of our citizens...
...wife found your balloon this morning. We saw your address on the note it was torn and I could not write on it. If you sent me money I will send the green balloon to you. It was found near Killiney Road. I am a Chinese...
Good scientists are insatiably curious. Sociologist Ray H. Abrams of the University of Pennsylvania, wondering how long a widower waits after the death of a first wife before getting married again, decided to explore the pages of Who's Who in America. Thousands of eminent widowers never remarry. But Dr. Abrams found 1,333 entries in Who's Who giving the date of a first wife's death and that of a second marriage. Among these remarrying widowers he found that the average interval was not very long-about two and a half years...
...Scientific Monthly last week Dr. Abrams reported that businessmen and lawyers tend to wait longer than the average before taking another wife. Educators, public officials and medical men are not far from the average. Clergymen and engineers are quicker, a good proportion marrying again in less than two years. Dr. Abrams explains this by 1) the social advantage of a wife to Protestant ministers; 2) frequent moving of engineers to new locations. Scientists apparently remarry more quickly than any other group. For this Dr. Abrams had no explanation whatever...
Despite Richard Whitney's Groton & Harvard background, social connections, family tie-up with J. P. Morgan & Co., his brokerage business apparently went from one financial crisis to another. In 1926 he was so hard-pressed for funds that he hypothecated the funds of his wife's trust fund for a firm loan, subsequently repaid it. In 1929 his brother lent him $500,000. In 1930, same year he became president of the Exchange, Richard Whitney began misusing securities of the New York Yacht Club. By 1931, Depression had nicked him so badly that he used his position...