Word: brother-in-law
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...Commanded by Theodore Roosevelt's brother-in-law, Captain William Sheffield Cowles...
...Cedillo may have waited too long to be able to put on a large-scale revolt. But the Boss was still hoping for the support of five unnamed Governors to help him put over a national Rightist revolt. Late last week his wife, his four daughters and his brother-in-law motored to the U. S., temporarily settled in Texas...
...Alley (Yon Are the Reason for My Love Song), had decided on a plunge into serious composition. The result, a symphonic poem, The Last Knight, based on some mystical verses by the late G. K. Chesterton, got solicitous treatment from Conductor Monteux, Composer Davis' brother-in-law. Like the now classic Negro Rhapsody of John Powell which followed it, Mrs, Davis' opus was agreeably straightforward. Her knight errant did a good deal of pale loitering and sounded a great deal like the hero of Richard Strauss's Heldenleben but as Opus I it rated at least...
...advisers who ordinarily arrange extraordinary conferences with Mr. Roosevelt were already complaining that the occasion had become uncomfortably historic. According to this somewhat jaundiced view, the President's brother-in-law, Gracie Hall Roosevelt, had bungled at a crucial stage in the Administration's Second Recovery Program. By arranging a White House invitation to Henry Ford, moaned these counselors, this onetime Detroit comptroller had also arranged a White House dramatization for the stiffest and most nonresilient member of the Opposition; had, indeed, obliterated the effects of the friendly pronouncement from SECommissioner John Hanes's Sixteen Businessmen...
...time in New York-had given the invitation was that the President considered it more tactful to invite Mr. Ford through an emissary than to summon him directly. Having deduced this much-despite rumors that Hall Roosevelt had given the invitation on his own account, thus putting his brother-in-law in the position of being forced to second it-the nation's press spent the rest of the week speculating on what, since he wanted nothing and had also promised to give no advice, Mr. Ford was going to the White House for. As to this, neither...