Word: brother-in-law
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...Shanghai, Generalissimo Chiang's big banker brother-in-law T. V. Soong was standing pat in the International Settlement, despite reports that he had fled. "I predict," he declared "that within three months-providing we can hold out, which I am sure we can-Japan will be on the verge of bankruptcy and facing revolution!" To achieve this aim, Chinese were burning down whole cities, such as Chinkiang 40 miles east of Nanking, destroying millions of dollars worth of Chinese property. This was announced as a "scorched earth policy" to make conquest as difficult as possible for Japan...
...such announcements last week was to impress the world with a notion that whatever cities Japanese troops succeed in taking there will always be other cities containing part of the "Chinese Government." Generalissimo Chiang, although still Premier, was reported hourly about to turn the Premiership over to his brother-in-law Dr. Kung...
Died. Prince Ahmed Seif ed Din, 60, brother-in-law to the late King Fuad of Egypt; in Istanbul. One night in 1898, Ahmed encountered King Fuad in Cairo's hotspot Native Club, accused him of hav-ing mistreated Fuad's first wife (Ahmed's sister), shot him in the throat, so that the King ever after half-coughed, half-cackled. Ahmed cracked rocks for three penitential years, was then deported to an English asylum, escaped after 25 years, has since lived quietly on the Bosphorus...
That sort of thing was Horatio Alger justice, for Mr. Schulte has worked hard all his life. At 15 he started as a clerk in a Sixth Avenue drygoods store. Two years later he went to work as a cigar clerk for his brother-in-law. A partner at 25, he owned the firm and its five stores two years later in 1900. There were soon more stores and diligent Mr. Schulte, working hard in a dingy Manhattan office, paid less & less attention to tobacco, more & more to real estate. In 1926, which is the year Mr. Schulte...
...Young, with the aid of his brother-in-law, Dr. John Archibald Campbell Colston, transformed one pseudohermaphrodite by grafting a pair of testicles taken from a healthy 18-year-old Maryland convict a few minutes after he was hanged. The cure lasted for three years, when the patient lost his self-confidence, regained his effeminate obesity, disappeared...