Word: brother-in-law
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Spectacled Defendant Barrett had to be wheeled into the Federal courtroom to hear sentence passed. In addition to the loss of one eye. shot out by his brother-in-law. Barrett was crippled in the knees by a volley of slugs fired by the Government agents in the West College Corner affray. Ordering the prisoner to be hanged at the Marion County Jail next March, U. S. District Judge Robert C. Baltzell concluded: "May I add personally that I hope and pray that God will be merciful unto...
Chip Robert then married Evelyn Walker, beauteous, horsey daughter of Harold Walker, counsel to Standard Oil of New Jersey. Evelyn Walker Robert's brother, Aldace Walker III, married Joe Davies' daughter. Thus Joe Davies' son-in-law's brother-in-law is an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury...
...seeing nobody during a concert." To the vast delight of its owner, its maker and its chauffeur, an old Crane Simplex automobile purred smoothly over its 278,000th mile in Manhattan." The good old car is still going strong." bubbled Owner Herbert Livingston Satterlee, silver-bearded lawyer and brother-in-law of J. P. Morgan. Designed and built in 1915 by Henry M. Crane, now technical adviser to the president of General Motors, the Crane Simplex makes better than ten miles per gallon, can build up a speed of 68 m.p.h. and has all its important original parts except...
Stove-Gas. In North China the pretext of a "spontaneous Chinese movement for autonomy" was set up fortnight ago when 25 counties were proclaimed an Autonomous Government by one Mr. Yin Ju-keng, a Chinese with a prominent Japanese brother-in-law. Orders to arrest Mr. Yin were telegraphed by Generalissimo Chiang last week to General Shang Chen, Governor of Hopei Province. Unable to arrest Mr. Yin, General Shang announced that he blamed himself entirely for everything and in deepest shame would resign "because of illness contracted from stove- gas in my residence." Not to be put off with stove...
...Ambassador, Sir Ronald Lindsay, anxious to watch the Canadian who London feared might throw over the Empire as a trade ally in favor of the U. S. Off in a White House limousine drove Mr. King to the Canadian Legation, recently vacated by Canadian Minister William Duncan Herridge, brother-in-law of outgoing Prime Minister Bennett. Promptly he set matters right with the Empire by announcing that he had really intended to visit London before Washington but had changed his plans because of the impending British elections (see p. 18). Then he dropped in at the British Embassy...