Word: brother-in-law
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...development of its insulation. It is occupied by Ruth Page, able modernistic opera and concert ballerina. Dancer Page's husband is able Lawyer Thomas H. Fisher, son of Walter L. Fisher who served as President Taft's Secretary of the Interior. Dancer Page's brother-in-law is tall, yellow-haired Howard T. Fisher, architect, who with another lawyer-brother Arthur, conceived General Houses, Inc. After it opens its Chicago World's Fair exhibit June 1, General Houses expects to offer a five-room-&-bath dwelling, similar to the Ruth Page model, for less than...
Instead of being called Soviets the various councils which comprise the Nanking Government are called yuans. As in Russia the so-called "President" (Mr. Lin Sen) and so-called "Premier" (Mr. Wang Ching-wei) are of scant importance, effective power being centred nationally in Generalissimo Chiang and his Brother-in-law Finance Minister Dr. Sung Tse-wen, better known as T. V. Soong. Locally the Chinese people's talent for "muddling through" provides law & order under the regional dictatorships of War Lords like famed Han Fu-chu of Shantung Province (TIME...
...only newshawks were irked. Some bankers too deplored the policy of keeping the public in doubt. So must have felt Winthrop Williams Aldrich, chairman of Chase National. Brother-in-law of John D. Rockefeller Jr., head of the world's largest bank, he called newshawks to his office and gave them his opinions on banking...
...business men asked last week, did Mr. Aldrich step off the reservation? Was it banking inexperience? Winthrop Aldrich, yachtsman son of Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich, late Rhode Island Senator, was a lawyer until 1929 when he was made president of his brother-in-law's Equitable Trust Co. (merged a year later with Chase). Was it a war between the Rockefellers and Morgan? The Hearst Press, without a single new fact to base its theory on, and making such blunders as describing Mr. Aldrich as a Rockefeller son-in-law,* seized this lurid angle: "The House of Rockefeller would strip...
...true that Henry Ford's $7,500,000 deposit was the largest. In addition Mr. Ford had loaned Union Guardian (of which Edsel Ford and his brother-in-law Ernest C. Kanzler are directors) another $11,000,000 in an earlier attempt to buttress the crumbling institution. The R. F. C. had put up $15.000.000. When Union Guardian approached the R. F. C. for more, Senator James Couzens, Henry Ford's oldtime partner and a bitter critic of the R. F. C., insisted that adequate security must be furnished. This the bank could not do for a loan...