Word: brother-in-law
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...eldest sister in China's famed "Soong Dynasty" (TIME, Dec. 11), Finance Minister Kung announced with stoical aplomb that he was "considering" a 28% upping of China's most vital and widely detested tax, that on salt. To collect this tax Dr. Kung's brother-in-law and predecessor as Finance Minister, famed T. V. Soong, organized a special army of "salt tax troops" and was believed to have screwed out of the peasantry the last copper cash that they would pay without rebellion...
...week Death -coming as it must to all jobholders-brought even his job to an end. Johnson's late wife was a sister of "Judge" Israel Durham who 30 years ago was a power in Philadelphia politics. In 1903 Durham got the city council to vote his brother-in-law a perpetual contract as architect at a fee of 6% of the total cost of constructing and equipping all buildings built for the city Health Department...
Month ago Generalissimo Chiang and Brother-in-law T. V. quarreled (TIME, Nov. 6) with the result that Mr. Soong resigned as Finance Minister. He was replaced by the Generalissimo's other Brother-in-law, Dr. Kung. But in Chinese finance there is no such thing as replacing T. V. Soong. Dr. Kung is amiable and highly esteemed, less clever than his wife "Pleasant." Mr. Soong is the only man who ever balanced China's budget (TIME, Jan. 2), the only Chinese Finance Minister who ever held his country's extravagant militarists in check. Unfortunately Soong...
...lawyer by training, Banker Aldrich got down to legal brass tacks with specific changes which he thought should be made in the Banking Act of 1933. His proposals had not only a strong legal but a strong moral tenor, natural to a brother-in-law of John D. Rockefeller Jr. Important Aldrich suggestions for the uplift of banking...
...Film, German debtors, etc.) had their share of it. Result: the gossip in the market place was not pleasant for Chase officials to listen to. Time came when the Rockefellers felt apparently that the Chase should be run in a far different way. Winthrop Williams Aldrich, Rockefeller brother-in-law, who had been president of Equitable, became chairman of Chase. Mr. Wiggin retired, aged 64, not broke like some others, but as one who had kept the rewards of his labors, as a very rich man-an achievement which in these days the financial community regards as something...