Word: brother-in-law
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Married. William Hale Harkness, cousin of Philanthropist Edward Stephen Harkness, brother-in-law of David Sinton Ingalls, Republican nominee for Governor of Ohio; and Elisabeth Grant, Manhattan socialite...
Hearing of Press-agent chatter that his brother-in-law's nephew Prince Ned Svasti, Princeton undergraduate, was thinking of marrying a New York dance-hall hostess, vigilant King Prajadhipok of Siam sent warning that Prince Ned Svasti must do no such thing...
...Warner Baxter. Conway Tearle is vexed. There is much keen, clipped talk, people being candidly selfish, sinister, caddish with pleased expressions. Back in the Secret Service, Baxter captures a killer-counterfeiter to get his hand in, then investigates his fiancee's murder of an international spy, her brother-in-law. He tries to save her from the consequences by recovering the gun from an umbrella stand at midnight. He gets shot, almost dies. His faithful butler reels, almost faints when he hears the news. To please a friend, Baxter's superior destroys the evidence against Karen Morley...
...seems unlikely that Mrs. Cash and her brother intended a fraud, or that Col. Shannon believed personally that there was a fraud, and in fact the court did not find a fraud. But Col. Shannon was fellow counsel in a case in which the procedure was a charge of a legal fraud. Col. Cash took this and the evidence adduced as an insult against his wife and he and his brother-in-law each issued a challenge to both lawyers. Neither accepted...
...Prohibition." During the daytime the ills of office and the Ways & Means Committee had a sobering effect. But at nights he forgot his troubles with the British Ambassador, assisted by whiskeys' & soda (bicarbonate). Administration affairs were just beginning to straighten out when Jim Doolittle, the President's brother-in-law, who married his sister Tess under compulsion, was arrested for 'legging in Montana. That scandal was the prelude to worse troubles. In its effort to balance the Budget, the Senate taxed landlords 50% of any rent they charged, 150% of what they got. What with Wall Street investigations, the Depression...