Word: brother-in-law
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...help in the civil war and thinking she was winning the World War, vetoed any cooperation with England. Mannerheim resigned in a huff and the newly elected Regent, Per Svinhufvud, asked the Kaiser to name one of his sons King of Finland. The Kaiser proposed his brother-in-law, Prince Friedrich Karl of Hesse, who was promptly elected by the Finnish Diet. Next thing the Finns knew, the Allies had won the war and Finland was caught with its pants down. The only man who could get them up was Mannerheim...
Some Italian "units" (whose strength-probably trifling-was kept a military secret) reached Helsinki. Prince Aage of Denmark, who once fought with the French Foreign Legion, volunteered, as did his brother-in-law, Prince Rene of Bourbon-Parma. Two other volunteers were Prince Ferdinand Andreas of Liechtenstein and Sweden's tennis champion, Karl Schroder. Aland Island Novelist Sally Salminen (Katrina) returned to Helsinki from abroad and offered her services to the Finnish Government...
This pastoral was published in the Ecclesiastical Bulletin of Toledo (Cardinal Coma's see), then released to the secular press. The Spanish censorship (headed by Franco's brother-in-law, Ramon Serrano Suñer) clamped down on it. More over - according to report - the Government forbade the pastoral's reading in the churches...
Elected first president of the Harvard Club of Chungking, temporary capital of China, was owl-eyed, moon-faced T. V. Soong ('15), "China's Smartest Banker" and Chiang Kai-shek's brother-in-law...
Campaigning for brother-in-law Governor Earl Kemp Long, limpid-eyed ex-Senator Rose McConnell Long, widow of Louisiana's loquacious Kingfish, made an eleven-word speech to expectant voters of Donaldsonville, La.: "I am happy to be here and thank you very much...