Word: brother-in-law
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...Name?" asked the desk sergeant. '"Mr. Jones,'' mumbled Mr. Leavitt. Up spoke a detective to Policeman Carr and the U. S. Agents: ''You guys certainly are crazy. You might just as well throw your badges away now. Don't you know you've arrested President Hoover's brother-in-law and his name's Leavitt?" Mr. Leavitt nodded confirmation of this fact, posted $250 bail...
...Himself, his daughter, his son and his son's brother-in-law...
...seeing statesmen and politicians baited. However some 2,000 copies of the revamped issue were bought in the Capital. Usual sale there is about 1,000. Instigator of the change is The Washingtoman's new General Manager Frederick G. Brownell, onetime editor & publisher of Buffalo Town Tidings, brother-in-law of Editor Peter Yischer of Polo. Mrs. Marion Banister, sister of Senator Carter Glass of Virginia, continues as editrix. Newsmen Robert S. Allen, George Abell and Drew Pearson, reputed co-authors of Washington Merry-Go-Round, were reported helping to finance the magazine with their royalties from the book...
...Government moved promptly for relief. A committee was organized at Shanghai with the ablest man in Chiang Kai-shek's Cabinet at its head, Finance Minister T. V. Soong, Harvard man, scion of the great "Soong Dynasty" of Shanghai bankers, and President Chiang Kai-shek's brother-in-law. Minister Soong adjusted his glasses, went to work...
Died. Alva Clymer Dinkey, 65, one-time president (1903-15) of Carnegie Steel Co., president of the Midvale Co.; after three months illness; at Wynnewood, Pa. Brother-in-law of Charles Michael Schwab who married Emma Eurana. one of his three surviving sisters, he started as a water boy in the Carnegie-owned Edgar Thomson Steel Works...