Word: brother-in-law
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...Hyde Park. The young woman proved to be the Hon. Unity Valkyrie Freeman-Mitford, a daughter of Lord Redesdale, who is pro-German, and she has worn her swastika ever since it was given her by Adolf Hitler. The Hon. Unity's 19-year-old brother-in-law, Mr. Esmond Marcus David Romilly, a nephew of Winston Churchill, was among the first foreign friends of Leftist Spain to enlist in its People's Army (see p. 21), fought in defense of Madrid, is a British Communist...
...with a hoe, this thinning is called "chopping." From April to June every year the South's cotton fields are full of an army of choppers, each doing about an acre a day. In 1920 a San Antonio jack-of-all-trades named Ellis Albaugh visited his brother-in-law at Seguin, Tex. The brother-in-law had a broken leg, and not enough choppers were available to work his cotton fields. So Ellis Albaugh built a crude machine which...
Like many another inventor, Otto Zachow had no head for finance. He and his brother-in-law, William Besserdich, unable to get their machine into production, interested a husky young lawyer named Walter Alfred Olen. Walt Olen set out to raise $250,000. In 1910 the present company was incorporated, with him as president, and Otto Zachow received a block of stock. About 1914 Zachow and Besserdich sold out for $25,000. That was a mistake, for General Pershing had found several F.W.D. trucks useful while chasing "Pancho" Villa across Mexico. When War broke in Europe, the Allies began buying...
...Balkans a monarch must often act with vigor if he expects to stay King, and at Bucharest last week Carol von Hohenzollern suddenly made himself as much a Dictator as was his brother-in-law, the late King Alexander of Yugoslavia, assassinated at Marseille (TIME. Oct. 15, 1934, et seq.). Carol II has long hankered after the absolutism of his Hohenzollern kinsman Wilhelm II. Last week's crisis broke after Premier Octavian Goga received two heavy blows: 1) his entire slate of anti-Semitic decrees was declared unconstitutional; and 2) a brawl in which Goga's own political...
...China's Dictator Chiang Kai-shek resigned as Premier in favor of his brother-in-law (1 T. V. Soong, 2 Wu Pei-fu, 3 H. H. Kung, 4 Chang Hsueh-liang, 5 Eugene Chen...