Word: widow
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...political bones with which to frighten the city's 75,000 Negro voters out of their Republican wits. What he ghoulishly drew forth was the wraith of Chicago's great race riot of July 27-Aug. 2, 1919. This he hurled anonymously at the Senator's widow, Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick, now the Republican nominee for the Senate against Democrat James Hamilton Lewis...
Mayor Thompson has long nursed a great hatred for the Chicago Tribune and its publisher, Col. Robert Rutherford McCormick, brother of Medill. In last April's Republican senatorial primary the Mayor supported Widow McCormick for the expedient purpose of eliminating Senator Charles Samuel Deneen's political grip on Chicago. But the Mayor was no man to support a McCormick for actual election. Therefore last week he prepared a leaflet designed to turn Negroes from Nominee McCormick to Nominee Lewis. Unwilling to sign his own name to the broadside, he first attempted to induce Negro Congressman Oscar De Priest...
...cartoon and Senator Medill McCormick gave out the accompanying interview which I believe created greater race hatred and increased the number of murders. ... It is my duty to recall to you now [the cartoon and interview] so that you may be warned before voting . . . for Ruth Hanna McCormick, the widow and adviser of Medill McCormick. Those who vote for a member of the Chicago Tribune family . . . may jeopardize their lives, because a seat in the Senate would again give great political power to a McCormick and the Tribune to use against public peace and peaceful citizens...
...William James Conners, 36, widow of the hard-bitten Buffalo brewer and steamship operator who bought the Buffalo Enquirer "because everybody roasts me and now I want to heat a pan" (TIME, Oct. 14, 1929), last week heeded a talmudic apothegm which patriarchal Nathan Straus once telegraphed her late husband. Nathan Straus had said: "When you give at death it is lead; when you give in sickness it is silver; when you give in health it is gold." Mrs. Conners believes that San Francisco's Drs. Walter Bernard Coffey and John Davis Humber can cure cancer with an extract...
Months ago a Mrs. Clementine Briggs Doran of Holyoke, Mass. and one William Wilbur J. Cooke of Philadelphia arrived in Boston, put up at the Ritz-Carlton. Mr. Cooke is chiefly famed for having once married the widow of John S. Huyler (chocolates). Mrs. Huyler-Cooke later advertised in the public prints that she was no longer responsible for the debts of William Wilbur J. Cooke...