Word: brother-in-law
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...excitable character. His juvenile tirades against Steel-chiefly directed toward an off-stage factory whistle which toots often and annoyingly-hurry the death of his hard-working father. Next he impregnates the sister of his brother-in-law. Meantime he has started a strike which ends with his getting cracked on the head by steel police. And when the police follow him into his own house, cornering him like a rat, his sister shoots one of them, is carried off to jail. All this takes place to an accompaniment of futile, maudlin ranting against things-as-they-are. A tract...
Soon in Washington newsboys were hawking their papers with the loud cry of: "President Hoover's brother-in-law arrested for bootlegging...
...Hoover refused to believe that the husband of Mary, his only sister, was in such unseemly trouble. Confirmation reduced the President to embarrassed silence. He dreaded the jokes, the wisecracks, the Wet smirks that were sure to follow. Of course he was not the keeper of his plumber brother-in-law but he could not disavow him publicly. Now he could somewhat understand how Dry Senator Fess felt when his son Lowell was caught brawling in New York speakeasies (TIME, June 15), how Dry Senator Heflin suffered when his son Tom Tom Jr. misbehaved with liquor (TIME, July 1, Sept...
...Santa Monica, Brother-in-Law Leavitt began to explain: "I grabbed the bag and now I'm holding it. I didn't know what was in the sack but I tried to be a good fellow. ... I guess anyone would try to help another out in a case like that. . . . One of the officers whispered that I should give the name of Jones. I objected but he insisted. ... I don't agree with Hoover on the Dry question? but I wasn't drinking." (A year ago Brother-in-Law Leavitt was arrested for intoxication, paid a $25 fine...
Grocer Dailey, though he angrily denied that it was he who had handed the gunny sack to his visitor, declared that Mr. Leavitt was "a victim of circumstances." The President's sister, back from her club meeting in Hollywood, said the same thing about her husband. Brother-in-Law Leavitt also won sympathetic support from a famed father-in-law. Santa Monica's Chief of Police Clarence Webb, whose daughter Fay is the wife of Crooner Rudy Vallee, declared: "I don't believe Leavitt's a bootlegger. I believe his story. But the arrest was legitimate and I'll stand...