Word: wife
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shot the doorman in the leg and burst in upon a young woman radio announcer who swooned as they shouted into her microphone for all Rumania to hear: "Attention! Calinescu has been assassinated. The action was carried out by Iron Guards." It so happened that the Premier's wife, who was staying at their country place, was listening to this broadcast, which she at first took to be a hoax. She set out for Bucharest with her 16-year-old son. On arrival, she was told that her husband was dead with five bullets through his body...
...ring was credited with $3,025,000 insurance on his life, $907,500 on his wife's life, $3,575,000 in cash. Goebbels was given a total of $8,990,000, of which $4,635,000 was said to be cash. Ribbentrop's figure was $9,740,000. The report named securities held for GÖring by "a German shipping firm in New York": $750,000 worth of bonds, mostly Pennsylvania R. R., Illinois Central, Cities Service, Bethlehem Steel. It gave him three ranches in South America; $1,225,000 in a bank at Sao Paulo...
...Texan who had studied art and architecture, Tom Woodburn was commissioned in the Infantry a month after the U. S. entered World War I. He hopes it will never have to enter World War II. Wife Margaret and Daughters Betty, 17, and Peggy, 6, are also artists. Two years ago Betty posed as a streamlined Miss Columbia for one of her father's posters. When his superiors discovered Tom Woodburn's talent, they added painting to his other duties as Chief of the Recruiting Publicity Bureau. What he says of his own Army experience...
...absorbed in the U. S. scene is Artist Sloan that he has never left its boundaries. He and his miniature wife Dolly ("the little woman who has been my right hand man") spend their winters in Manhattan, their summers in New Mexico. Liked by everyone are Artist Sloan's portrayals of city life with its socks down: lean cats scavenging in a snowy back yard, a dust storm on Fifth Avenue, scrubwomen in a library, girls on a roof drying their hair, men lined up at a bar. Less liked are the strange, bright-colored nudes, hatched and crosshatched...
...house at St. Servan (which was a base hospital in World War I) celebrated in July, Brooklyn Little Sisters in August. In Detroit, where Little Sisters run the fine $1,000,000 Burtha M. Fisher Home, given by one of the famed, pious seven Fisher (bodies) brothers and his wife. Archbishop Edward Mooney said of the sisters: "They teach us, and they have taught us for 100 years, that the Gospel is not Utopian; that if you build charity on faith and hope, it works...