Word: wife
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Until last year law required that a World War veteran be at least 30% disabled for his wife to get a pension when he died. John Elliott Rankin proposed that this disability requirement be lowered to 10%, so more widows would get more money. Franklin Roosevelt reluctantly compromised on 20% rather than face another fight with veteran-conscious Congressmen...
...stand disgraced, particularly since at all times the Japanese have had command of the air. Every Chinese was fit to burst with pride. Over-optimistic Chinese newspapers predicted the Japanese will now be driven back upon Tsinan. One who knows the real situation is Mme Chiang Kaishek, "Wife of 1937," who is at Hong Kong while her husband, Generalissimo Chiang, directs the desperate resistance of China. "The strain on the Generalissimo now is gigantic, almost superhuman," said Mme Chiang last week. "I feel that I must do everything in my power to help him hold up under that strain, because...
...Boheme (Intergloria Film) sets characters very like Puccini's Mimi and Rodolfo on a tragic course in a modern cinema plot, contrives to fit the woeful wind-up into La Boheme's familiar last act. With vigorous operatic Tenor Jan Kiepura and his cinema-songstress wife, Marta Eggerth, singing the opera's chief arias, the music charms, the film's scheme proves a workable one for bringing grand opera to the screen...
...Battleship's owner is Marian du Pont Somerville Scott, wife of Cinemactor Randolph Scott. She landed in England in time to reach Aintree only two hours before the race. Dressed in horsy tweeds and a Robin Hood hat, Mrs. Scott was jammed in the crowd after the finish, could not lead her horse in as the winner's owner usually does. When she finally reached Battleship's stable, she patted his neck with mixed emotions. Said she: "I am glad I won the Grand National. I didn't have a bet on the race...
...world's greatest living scientist lives placidly in a white frame house on Princeton's Mercer Street. He chose it for two dimensions, the height of its ceilings and the length of its flower garden in the back. He lives there with Margot, his late wife's daughter by a previous marriage, and his secretary, Fraulein Helen Dukas, who since Frau Einstein's death last year has looked after his bank account, his clothes and other things which to him are equally trivial. In the morning he works at home with his assistant, Dr. Peter...