Word: brother-in-law
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...Berlin, Professor Alfred Lothar Wegener's widow commissioned her brother-in-law, Professor Kurt Wegener, meteorologist, who at once prepared to go to Greenland to take command of the expedition. She told him to leave her husband's body at rest in its frigid tomb...
...anxiety, the rumors, the headlines, the goose-chases were reminiscent of many another kidnap case. There was the family "executive committee," to deal with police and press; a committee headed oddly enough by William D. Orthwein II, a brother-in-law of Mrs. Kelley and a cousin of young Adolphus Busch Orthwein. And there was the most intense rivalry in the local press, notably between St. Louis' two famed newshawks, Harry Thompson Brundidge of the Star, and John T. Rogers of the Post-Dispatch. Brundidge had scooped the town on the Adolphus Busch Orthwein case...
Through his brother-in-law he controlled the Flat Janitors' Union, and his activities also extended into the Meat Cutters' Union. One brother, Edward, was recently indicted for forcing contractors to pay the Sheet Metal Workers' Union 5% on contracts. Another brother, Danny, is serving 14 years in Joliet Penitentiary (see p. 9) for killing a saloonkeeper...
Herbert Livingston Satterlee, lawyer brother-in-law of J. P. Morgan, last week flung aside his usual self-restraint and snapped the exclamatory question at Dr. John Augustus Hartwell, president of the New York Academy of Medicine. Mr. Satterlee as lawyer was asking the New York State Department of Social Welfare's permission for San Francisco's Drs. Walter Bernard Coffey and John Davis Humber to operate a cancer research laboratory and clinic at Huntington, L. I. Arguing against the permit were Dr. Hartwell, Dr. Francis Carter Wood, director of Columbia University's Institute of Cancer Research, Dr. William Hallock...
Miss Sally Bates, who is now playing the leading role in "Up Pops The Devil" at the Wilbur, cornered by a CRIMSON interviewer yesterday, very kindly submitted to the rather unpleasant process of answering a lot of questions of no particular importance. She said that she had a brother-in-law who was once a CRIMSON editor and that he had told her all about the process of interviewing actresses and the attendant difficulties and pleasures. If is still a matter of doubt whether or not that statement was offered as a reason for her indulgence in the present instance...