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Mothers' pensions were long-term cash provisions to impoverished single mothers. [3] Payments were generally inadequate to cover living expenses. [4] Nearly every state had a maximum allowable allowance ranging from 9 dollars to 15 dollars per month (approximately $120 to $275 in 2021 dollars) for the first child and 4 dollars to 10 dollars for any additional children. [5]
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The American Book Review was founded in 1977 by Ronald Sukenick. [6] According to author and essayist Raymond Federman, in his reading with American Book Review in 2007, Sukenick founded the American Book Review because The New York Times had stopped reviewing books by "that group labeled experimental writers", and Sukenick wanted to start a "journal where we can review books that everyone is ...
Marriage number three was brief, as it appears to have been a disguised attempt to make Edmond Safra jealous. In 1976, Lily succeeded in getting Safra, a life-long bachelor, to the altar.
Lynn Caine (1924–1987) was an American author and publishing agent at Little, Brown and Company from 1967 to 1976. [1] She is best known for her best-selling book "Widow", published on May 29, 1974, [2] about her experiences after the death from cancer of her husband Martin Caine in 1971.
Journal of family history 16.2 (1991): 191-210. online; Blom, Ida. "Widowhood: From the Poor Law Society to the Welfare Society: The Case of Norway, 1875-1964." Journal of Women's History 4.2 (1992): 52-81. excerpt; Bremmer, Jan, and Lourens Van Den Bosch, eds. Between poverty and the pyre: Moments in the history of widowhood. (Routledge, 2002 ...
The American Review published its first issue in 1967 as New American Review, edited by Ted Solotaroff. It was printed and distributed as a paperback book by the New American Library from 1967 to 1970. When it began to struggle financially, it continued in smaller numbers at Simon & Schuster until 1972 before finally moving to Bantam Books in 1973.
The couple, both widows, married on Friday, Nov. 1, after meeting at their retirement home in Austin, Texas. Snyder is 98 and his new bride is 96. The groom was smitten the first time he saw ...