Word: brother-in-law
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...collapse of Imperial Russia freed Prisoner Svinhufvud who was hailed as a hero on his return to Helsingfors. became President of the Senate (1917-18) and Regent of Finland (1918). Threatened by Red Russia. Regent Svinhufvud offered the Crown of Finland to Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse, brother-in-law of Wilhelm II (who did not abdicate until November 1918). During the interval Prince Frederick Charles accepted Finland's Crown but delayed and dillydallied about going so far into the "bleak North" until too late. Temporarily, Finland went Red in spots. Several Finnish landowners were murdered in their beds...
...Santa Monica. Calif, police court last week Judge Charles M. Spencer sat on the bench listening to witnesses tell how they had arrested Cornelius Van Ness Leavitt, President Hoover's brother-in-law, last month as he emerged from a grocery store carrying a gunny sack loaded with 19 pints of whiskey (TIME, Nov. 23). Then Judge Spencer heard Mr. Leavitt explain how he had been taking a drink in the rear of the store* when somebody put the sack in his hand, asked him to get rid of it; how he did not know its contents...
...crowd clapped. Brother-in-law Leavitt, once a plumber, bowed, grinned, shook hands all around...
...Central American revolution occurred in El Salvador last week. There were no obscure causes. The government of President Arturo Araujo, in its anxiety to economize,* had simply forgotten to pay the army officers' salaries for three months. Chief of Salvadorean Police was President Araujo's brother-in-law. The police were paid. The police remained loyal...
...Glen Warner--patent medicine manufacturer, veteran football coach, moving-picture producer, brother-in-law of the Vice-President...