Word: brother-in-law
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...chummy note to "Lew," World Bank President Jack McCloy suggested to his brother-in-law Lewis Douglas, U.S. Ambassador to Britain, that the World Bank might provide funds for Ruhr reconstruction. But since Germany is not eligible for a World Bank loan, a way would first have to be found to get around the bank's legal restrictions...
...week's end, even the sudden rediscovery by the press that Royall is a brother-in-law of Johannes Steel, pro-Communist radio and news commentator (who married Royall's half-sister), did not delay the Senate's action on his name. Within 24 hours after his nomination reached the Hill, the Senate had confirmed his appointment...
Dolores Costello, 41, blonde screen belle of the '20s and early '30s, was haled into a Los Angeles court by her brother-in-law, Lee LeBlanc. The court had given Dolores custody of his six-year-old daughter; now he wanted the right to see her on weekends...
Louis Rose, 66, tiny, tough-talking director of Circulation ($110,000 a year), is an ex-newsboy, disciple and brother-in-law of the late Max Annenberg. He is the only executive who can stop the presses (with a buzzer that blows a siren in the press room). "Louie" Rose cruises his newsstands at night in a new, $5,000 Packard. His boss bought it, found the roof too low for the high McCormick head, told Rose: "If you like it I'll give it to you." Rose liked...
Since 1930 the dictator has averaged $1,000 a day from his salt monopoly. The national lottery, nominally run by his brother-in-law Ramon Savinon, nets $15,000 a month. Brother Anibal makes the mahogany concession worth $400,000 a year. But the slickest parlay is in cattle. The biggest cattle raiser in the Republic, the Benefactor operates the most modern slaughterhouse, and sets his own price on all cattle sold in the country. The slaughterhouse, built with an Export-Import Bank loan, nominally belongs to the state; so do the ships that carry Trujillo's beef...