Word: brother-in-law
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...authorship of a book entitled Relations and Complications, which you say reveals the details of the Raja's courtship of me and our marital relations. I did not write the book. It was authored by the wife of the Tuan Muda (Captain Bertram Brooke), my brother-in-law, and it does not contain any details of the type you refer...
Last week, 750 miles west of its former Manhattan office, Scribner's Commentator, bellwether of isolationist theoreticians, was busy getting settled in its headquarters in Lake Geneva, Wis.(pop. 3,258). Founded four years ago by Charles Shipman Payson, rich redheaded brother-in-law of Sportsman Jack Whitney. Scribner's Commentator has had as contributors Charles Lindbergh, Senators Wheeler and Nye, General Hugh Johnson, the Chicago Tribune's Publisher R. R. McCormick...
...reversed last week when Caudillo Francisco Franco appointed Colonel Valentin Galarza Morante Minister of Government. The nearest thing to a confidant that General Franco has, Galarza will be in charge of local and provincial governments, propaganda, health, relief, national reconstruction, the national police. Since Boss Franco's brother-in-law and the Falangists' boss, Ramon Serrano Suner, gave up this portfolio last autumn to concentrate on the Foreign Ministry, the Ministry of Government has been run by Jose Lorente, one of Serrano's disciples...
...auspices), Franco is presumably less land-hungry today than he is worried about hunger, poverty and disease in Spain itself. At the same time, if German troops should march through Spain, it would be preferable to have his old Army friends on the reception committee instead of his brother-in-law's pro-Nazi Falange...
...Beech-Nut line (beginning with jam which his sister came down to the plant and made). These new products are the key to Beech-Nut's rising profits, for today the cured meats account for less than 2% of earnings. Biggest money-maker is chewing gum, which Brother-in-law F. E. Barbour handles. Other big items are strained foods, coffee, peanut butter, soup. Dropped along the way are tomato juice (1940), biscuits (1940), ginger ale, fish bait...