Word: brother-in-law
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...month after the divorce of Betsy Gushing Roosevelt, surgeon's daughter, became final, and two days after Catholic Nurse Schneider had finished observing Lent; in Los Angeles. Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt flew from Boston, where she had seen her niece married, to attend the ceremony. Sister and Brother-in-law Ann and John Boettiger came down from Seattle. The five Roosevelt siblings have now been married a total of eight times...
...when Abbott let his pint-sized brother-in-law, a Florida lawyer, take over (1926), the Defender started down the skids. Livelier competitors (the Baltimore Afro-American and Pittsburgh Courier) grabbed a lot of Defender circulation with pictures of barer brownskin and high yaller gals, more chest-thumping against race discrimination. The Defender staff had to be harshly shaken up. The brother-in-law, bounced at last, sued the now-ailing Abbott for $85,000. Mrs. Abbott No. 1 won an expensive divorce suit. Abbott put his favorite nephew in charge of the paper. The Defender went from...
...last week, for the first time, Benito Mussolini took the trouble to meet the man he helped to power in Spain. At II Duce's invitation Generalissimo Francisco Franco and his Foreign Minister and brother-in-law, Ramón Serrano Suñer, sped across southern France to the Italian Riviera town of Bordighera, where II Duce was waiting to shake hands. While an Italian armored train, its guns turned on the Mediterranean, chuffed nervously up & down the Riviera between San Remo and Grimaldi, II Duce, El Caudillo and the man Spaniards derisively call the Big Shot Brother...
Mildred told of another frustrated assault, in a parked car. Attorney Cantwell asked if her brother-in-law had never been successful in his assaults. "Never," said Mildred. "He never even got to kiss me." Baffled Attorney Cantwell asked why she continued to go to the movies with her indefatigable assailant. Said Mildred: "I didn't have anybody else to take me to the movies...
...last week Spain's Supreme War Council held secret meetings and the press blustered about the bread shortage, which it blamed on the British blockade. This week Generalissimo Francisco Franco and his brother-in-law, Foreign Minister Ramon Serrano Suner, hopped into a car in Madrid and set out for the Italian Riviera to meet Benito Mussolini and his son-in-law, Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano, who undoubtedly would remind the Spaniards of all the favors Italy did for Franco's Spain when Italy seemed bigger potatoes. As Vichy denied Marshal Petain would join the conference...