Word: brother-in-law
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...Unlike Brother-in-Law Bok, with whom he was not particularly intimate, Publisher Martin was not brought up in the publishing business. He married into it. In 1909 he took to wife Alice W. Pillsbury of Milwaukee, daughter of Publisher Curtis's second cousin. A year later, Publisher Curtis made that second cousin his second wife. Two years after, John Charles Martin left the machinery business to run Mr. Curtis's first newspaper, the Philadelphia Public Ledger...
...Philadelphia as an errand boy. On his way to work he carried his shoes in his hand till he came to the city, to keep them from getting dusty. By the time the Civil War came, Wanamaker had saved enough money to go into business with his brother-in-law, Nathan Brown. The new firm advertised itself in conspicuous ways: by posters, by balloons, by tally-hos, by rhymed jingles in the newspapers...
...home of the Governor General of the Union of South Africa, has been occupied by Queen Mary's amiable younger brother. Alexander Augustus Frederick William Alfred George Cambridge, Earl of Athlone. In 1928 at the earnest request of Prime Minister James Barry Munnik Hertzog, alive to the advantage of near royalty in Capetown, his term was extended for another three years. Last week His Majesty the King-Emperor was graciously pleased to appoint as his brother-in-law's successor George Herbert Hyde Villiers, Earl of Clarendon, his appointment to become effective...
Unlike royal Brother-in-law Athlone, whose only occupation has been military (in the Boer War he won the D. S. O.; in the World War was twice mentioned in despatches), the Earl of Clarendon is "in trade." As Chairman of the government-owned British Broadcasting Co.* he has a salary of $14,580 a year, four times that of sharp-tongued Mrs. Philip Snowden, one of the B. B. C.'s three governors. Among his Lordship's not inconsiderable possessions are 500 acres of good Hertfordshire and Warwickshire land, an extensive collection of Old Masters (Van Dyck...
...Manhattan, one Elmer Julio killed himself by falling down an elevator shaft. On the fourth anniversary of his death, Elmer Julio's brother-in-law, William Widler, peeked into the same elevator shaft, was hauled out with broken legs, spine and pelvis...