Word: brother-in-law
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...Hughes Jr. resigned from the firm when President Hoover last year made him Solicitor General of the U. S. He promptly retired from that post when his father was named Chief Justice. *Walter F. ("Dutch") Carter, Mr. Hughes's brother-in-law, famed oldtime Yale baseball pitcher, partner in Hughes, Schurman & Dwight, was last week named a director of the Brooklyn Baseball Club ("Robins") by John A. Heydler, National League president...
...less than even chance to defeat Senator Deneen. Chicago, with its machine, probably would go Deneen. Down-State might go McCormick unless Newton Jenkins, third candidate, managed to split the vote. The Chicago Tribune ("World's Greatest Newspaper"), part-owned by Col. Robert Rutherford McCormick, brother-in-law of the candidate, had not committed itself beyond regretting the lack of a wet candidate. Should a wet Democrat arise, the Tribune might support him. Should he not, and should Mrs. McCormick be nominated, it might support her, although, as she has most carefully pointed out, no Tribune stock belongs...
...Marie José Charlotte Sophie Amelie Henriette Gabrielle de Saxe-Coburg-et-Gotha, Princess of Belgium, 23; at Rome, by His Eminence Pietro Cardinal Maffi, in the presence of the Kings of Italy, Belgium, Sweden, Bulgaria, the Prince of Monaco, the infante Fernando of Spain representing his brother-in-law King Alfonso XIII of Spain, and the Duke of York representing the King-Emperor George V. In token of great gladness King Vittorio Emanuele ordered 6,000 Italian criminals pardoned and let out of jail; gave 10,000 pairs of shoes to the poor; distributed lesser alms...
Last week, while her distinguished brother-in-law was engrossed in great affairs of state, Mrs. Rogers went on another of her frequent trips to Washington. If she thought at all of her jail experience it was now a dim, happy memory, for women now have their votes and Mrs. Rogers' present errand was most peaceable. She went to present to a meeting of the National Woman's Party a suggestion for a convention of international law to eliminate discrimination against women in matters of nationality...
...uncles continued to live to the embarrassment of poverty-stricken heirs, and Mrs. Fazekas continued to make essence of flypaper. Business expanded. She was soon forced to engage an assistant, one Mrs. Csordas. A third member of the firm was the village barber-undertaker-coroner, Midwife Fazekas' brother-in-law...