Word: brother-in-law
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...Jaquith of Manhattan's Model, Roland & Stone brokerage firm choose what stocks to trade-and also gave Jaquith Managed Funds' brokerage business. Jaquith's commissions: $1,188,155. Another Model, Roland & Stone employee, who collected $240,831: Harold W. Smith, Hovey Slayton's brother-in-law...
Joey's voice is heard answering quietly from backstage: "I dunno. Dean Martin is drunk; Sammy Davis hadda go to da temple; Peter Lawford's out campaigning for his brother-in-law." Hopefully, the M.C. asks: "What's Frank doing?" Joey's answer is a wise snicker. Then he makes his entrance...
...category in it that particularly rankles Britain's Tory Lord Mancroft is the prohibition of marriage to a brother-in-law or sister-in-law. Not until 1907 did Parliament pass a law permitting a man to marry his deceased wife's sister; not until 1921 could a woman marry her deceased husband's brother. Lord Mancroft has been trying since 1949-against the Established Church-to go even farther. He wanted to make marriage to a brother-in-law or a sister-in-law legal even while the first spouse, though divorced, is still alive. Last...
...York, who told the SEC that the underwriting was originally his "deal." But because he is facing charges of violating the SEC law by selling unregistered stock in a phony cancer cure, he arranged to have the underwriter of record appear as a Washington firm in which his brother-in-law had originally had a one-third interest. This firm has the fancy title of Investment Bankers of America, Inc., a name confusingly close to the august Investment Bankers Association of America, also with headquarters in Washington...
...arguing the dangers of nuclear testing with a contrary-minded colleague. Most of this, if remarkably dull, can at least be called relevant. But a far greater part of the time, Dr. Cornish is being visited by relatives: a son and a daughter-in-law, a brother and a sister-in-law, a sister and a brother-in-law, a nephew and a niece. In they come with their little domestic problems, and out they go; back they come with their headaches or their beatnik poets, and out they go again. Seldom has there been so little action...