Word: brother-in-law
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...that the Embassy dinner for the Windsors would be "medium-sized and private." The White House took this cue: the Duke and Duchess were invited only to a lunch with the President-almost the minimum courtesy permissible by diplomatic protocol. When the death of the President's brother-in-law, G. Hall Roosevelt (see p. 17), made it necessary to cancel even this courtesy, a Presidential handshake was substituted. Their only formal Washington appearances were at receptions by the press clubs...
...late theologian James Gore King McClure, decided the federation should have a religion department-something unique for a run-of-the-mill agricultural cooperative. Its project No. 1 was the Lord's Acre Plan, and its head was and is Mr. McClure's brother-in-law, the Rev. Dumont Clarke, onetime Presbyterian missionary and prep-school chaplain (Lawrenceville, Andover...
...Grand Duke Vladimir's brother-in-law, Prince Louis Ferdinand, who is the eldest living son of the late Crown Prince of Germany. He married Vladimir's sister Kyra in 1938. Adolf Hitler is said to have encouraged the marriage and to have suggested that he might make Louis Ferdinand the Russian Tsar. In the '20s agile Louis Ferdinand studied as an apprentice mechanic at the Ford Motor Co. in Detroit. Before World War II he was a pilot for Germany's Lufthansa airline and he has recently flown with the Luftwaffe...
Died. Walter White Drew, 55, original model for "Uncle Walt" of the comic strip Gasoline Alley; in Chicago. He was the brother-in-law of the strip's artist, Frank King...
...raising money for London's Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children, in which her second brother is chief surgeon. Another concern is broadcasting to Britain by short wave. Pianist Humby hopes that last week's CBS program was heard by her mother, a night rescue worker in London. Miss Humby does not yet know whether her earlier broadcast was picked up where it was aimed-the aircraft carrier Illustrious, whose commander at that time was her brother-in-law...