Word: widow
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Phillips, was brief, simple (see p. 8).∙ ¶ As custom requires, Vice President Curtis gave a State dinner at the Mayflower Hotel last week for President Hoover. Forty-four other guests attended including Harvey Firestone, Charles Michael Schwab, William Wallace Atterbury, Mrs. Jacob Leander Loose (Kansas City cracker widow). Afterward Vice President Curtis entertained them with a newsreel of a Cabinet meeting and of Will Rogers' cinema Lightnin...
...credit, took more, for inaugurating the $150,000,000 program which gave his state the best hard-surfaced road system in the south. In the executive mansion at Raleigh his ten-year-old daughter by his first wife served as official hostess. Later he wooed & won Sarah Ecker Watts, widow of George Watts, wealthy Durham Tobaccoman...
...railroad and its service from the woman's viewpoint grows in importance correspondingly." So last week spoke Michael Harrison Cahill, president, board chairman and chairman of the executive committee of Missouri-Kansas-Texas ("Katy") railroad. He had just appointed as his assistant Mrs. Frances Whitehead of St. Louis, widow of the late Charles N. Whitehead, long an M-K-T man, president the year he died...
Frisco Land. One of the executors of the properties of the late Thomas B. Slick, "King of Wildcatters," is his widow, daughter of a vice president of St. Louis-San Francisco Railway. Last week on land belonging to the railroad, and on which is located a roundhouse, the Slick interests brought in a well yielding 50,000 bbl. of oil and 4,000,000,000 cu. ft. of gas daily...
...Embarkation of first tourist trip ($2,500 & up) to the Antarctic; from London. Tour: to the Bay of Whales via Galapagos, Auckland & Tahiti, on the 6,000-ton Stella Polaris, with sight-seeing inland by airplane. Famed tourist: Lady Shackleton, widow of the late polar explorer (see SCIENCE...