Word: brother-in-law
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...sold the Sun to his brother-in-law, Moses Yale Beach, for $40,000, and 30 years later said it was the silliest thing he ever did. The Beach family managed the paper for 30 years, except for the period from 1860-62 when a religious group edited it and held noon prayer meetings in the city room. Then in 1868 a group of investors headed by Charles Anderson Dana bought the Sun for $175,000, moved it lock, stock & barrel to the fusty old building on Nassau Street...
When President Hamilton Holt dismissed Professor Rice (brother-in-law of Swarthmore's President Aydelotte), TIME, may have mistaken the yap of a small undergraduate minority for a case of widespread indignation. It now appears that President Holt did indeed have "good and sufficient" reason for the exercise of his executive authority; and that there was no genuine issue of Liberalism. TIME awaits the final report of the American Association of University Professors on the Rice inquiry and meanwhile regrets any injustice it may have done...
...Dealey, because Dr. Dvorak's brother-in-law, Professor William Learned Dealey, cooperated in the research which led to the keyboard arrangement. †Designed in 1868 by the late Christopher Latham Sholes. **Ten words most commonly misspelled by stenographers (according to Adelaide B. Hakes. technical supervisor of Katharine Gibbs School in Manhattan): procedure; lose; benefited; accommodate; adviser; occurrence; supersede; all right; principal; affect...
...produced short-stories under the nom de plume O. Henry. The late Druggist Richardson remained behind the counter for 17 years and being a dyspeptic gentleman who with just cause abhorred ipecac (then the common remedy for colds), invented a Magic Croup Salve which he named after his brother-in-law, Dr. Joshua Vick. In time Druggist Richardson became a manufacturer and Vick's Magic Croup Salve became Vick's VapoRub. His two sons, H. Smith Richardson and Lunsford Richardson, inherited the company. By 1929 they had it earning $3,700,000 a year and they stayed with...
Against Classics Professor John Andrew Rice, onetime Rhodes Scholar, brother-in-law of President Frank Aydelotte of Swarthmore College, there stood last spring the curious accusations of 1) whispering in chapel, 2) creating campus cliques, 3) swimming insufficiently clad in Florida's warm waters. President Holt asked Professor Rice quietly to resign. Professor Rice declined. Presently President Holt discovered the American Association of University Professors was looking into the case. At once President Holt fired Professor Rice. Then two Oxonians on the Rollins faculty expressed sympathy with Professor Rice. Out went one and the other resigned. Meanwhile...