Word: brother-in-law
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Next the lean, high-strung Generalissimo conferred with his moon-faced low-strung brother-in-law by marriage, Dr. H. H. Kung, easy-going Finance Minister. Shanghai buzzed with rumors that President Roosevelt's upping of the price of silver was about to force Chiang and Kung to take China's standard dollar off its white metal base...
...King Carol is a strong character," said Minister Owsley. "After the assassination, of his brother-in-law King Alexander only the courage of the Balkan rulers and the patience of the people averted disaster. For years the Balkans were used as the breeding grounds of war. Now that has been reversed. Peace is coming out of the Balkans...
...world Sibelius' music seemed at first either cheap or grimly forbidding. Critics who called him cheap pointed to the bombastic Finlandia or the lush Valse Triste which he wrote as incidental music for a play by his brother-in-law. Forbidding he was, in his way. He dovetailed into no set school. His scoring seemed classical but he used short spare motifs which he often left undeveloped. His pride in his symphonies was to scorn all claptrap effects, all hints of sensationalism...
...more progressive colonists, except her brother-in-law and a close friend, flocked to her banner and supported her crusade against the whole ministry. Her party became so large that the General Court feared the result of the coming election and moved to the Cambridge Common, then eight miles from Boston, in the correct belief that some of the Hutchinson party would not take the day off to cast their ballot...
...something called the Manchuria Oil Co., 80% of whose stock is in Japanese hands. To this firm His Majesty the puppet Emperor of Manchukuo has been graciously pleased to grant a monopoly of petroleum sales within his realm. President of the Oil Monopoly is Mr. Keizaburo Hashimoto, brother-in-law of famed General Takashi ("Happy Sparrow") Hishikari, the Japanese Ambassador to Manchukuo and Commander-in-Chief of the Japanese Army in Manchukuo...