Word: brother-in-law
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...Brother-in-Law, To the House, Premier Bennett was able to announce some good work by his brother-in-law, Canadian Minister at Washington William Duncan Herridge. In the past few weeks Major Herridge has negotiated with the State Department an agreement opening several new radio channels to Canada. During the dickering Major Herridge waxed emphatic about Canada's radio rights based on area. Contrariwise, Acting Secretary of State William R. Castle pointed out that U. S. population is 13 times that of Canada, that after all it is people, not acres, that listen. Under the agreement amicably arrived...
...recalled, however, having ridden in a switchback at Wembley Fair in 1924 with her brother-in-law, Edward of Wales, who mischievously calls her "Queen Elizabeth."* News of the Duchess' "confession" was bracketed in British papers with this ultrasafe revelation: His Majesty the King-Emperor still reads and rereads Dickens, Thackeray and Trollope, has lately been dipping into Conrad...
Foundations were laid (1907) during the episcopate of the late Rt. Rev. Henry Yates Satterlee, first Bishop of Washington, cousin to Herbert Livingston Satterlee who is John P. Morgan's brother-in-law and a prominent money-raiser for the Cathedral. For many years the Cathedral existed only underground. Since 1912 there have been daily services in Bethlehem Chapel which is one of three, in sturdy Norman architecture, burrowed among piers which will some day bear the weight of the 262-ft. central tower. These chapels began early to receive great dust. Woodrow Wilson was a Presbyterian but his widow...
Engaged, William Hale Harkness, cousin of Philanthropist Edward Stephen Harkness (Yale's famed Harkness Quadrangle), brother-in-law of Assistant Secretary of Navy for Aeronautics David Sinton Ingalls; and Elisabeth Grant, Manhattan socialite...
...Four M. P.s now comprise the "Lloyd George Party" in the Commons: himself, his daughter Miss Megan, his son Major Gwilym, and his son's brother-in-law, Major Goronwy Jones...