Word: brother-in-law
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Clyde Hoey is lukewarm to the New Deal, but Southern-hot for internationalism. An ex-Governor of North Carolina, Hoey is a brother-in-law of O. Max Gardner, another ex-Governor, now a lawyer-lobbyist, whose political machine is known as the "Gardner Dynasty." Hoey and the Gardner Dynasty had an easy time beating out still another ex-Governor, the famed "Cam" Morrison, 74, who held the Senate seat before Bob Reynolds beat him in 1932 by telling North Carolinians in horror that "Cam" actually ate caviar, "fish aigs that come from Red Rooshia...
...moment when he was fighting the unions and the war's end had tied up business in naval stores. One of eight children, Lillian Smith studied in Piedmont College, Baltimore's Peabody Conservatory, Columbia University. In 1922 she went to China (where her brother-in-law was American head of the Y.M.C.A.), taught Methodist hymns to Chinese moppets in revolutionary Hu-chow, just as the Chinese revolution was reaching the boiling point...
...came rumblings last week of a major political upheaval. While grey-gowned clerks delicately fingered their abacuses in the cold, smoky counting rooms, directors of the bank reclined in rattan chairs, sipped tea, and ousted their fiery chairman, brilliantly able Dr. T. V. Soong. Successor: his politically potent brother-in-law, Dr. H. H. Kung...
...acquired a splendid marine for a brother-in-law last fall. I am fond and proud TIME, JANUARY...
...bonds she had bought for $3,600 were now worth $313.64. She owed two quarters payment on the principal, plus $150 and interest: at least $750. She talked stiffly to the banker, whose bank had recently passed quietly into the hands of a Boston firm, to her new brother-in-law, who had spent more than he could afford on his honeymoon and whose factory now employed 126 people where it had employed 432 in good times. Then she gave up, sold the house furnishings for $383, packed her trunk and moved in with Helen and George...