Word: brother-in-law
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...said he, were $83,000,000, a fifty million dollar increase over 1927.* But, as everyone could foretell, he was not reelected to the Board, because, after the most famed proxy fight in recent business history, he controlled only 2,954,986 shares whereas Lawyer W. W. Aldrich, brother-in-law of John D. Rockefeller Jr., controlled...
...among the dead. He was spending St. Valentine's Day in Detroit. Moran inherited the North Side mob from "Schemer" Drucci, who inherited it from "Hymie" Weiss, who inherited it from the late great Dion O'Bannion. The perforated bodies were those of Moran's brother-in-law and co-leader, James Clark; No. 1 Gunman Peter Gusenberg, Con-Man John Snyder, Gorilla Al Weinshank, John May, the man in overalls, and Reinhart Schwimmer. Frank Gusenberg, Pete's "Kid" brother, carrying 20 bullets, lived for three hours after the shooting but gangland's curious code...
...Standard Oil of Indiana, or enough to enable Mr. Rockefeller Jr. to win the fight and oust Col. Stewart. Mr Aldrich is a son of the late Senator Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich (oldtime friend and intimate of Mr. Rockefeller Sr.) . . . the younger Aldrich now attacks for his impregnable brother-in-law...
...famous historian settled back in his chair and continued. "You know Washington was the wealthiest man in America in his day. He was a shrewd business man, an analytic bookkeeper, and the most consistent buyer of real estate in the country. During the Revolutionary War, when his brother-in-law. Fielding Lewis, went bankrupt making guns for the Continental Army, Washington stayed prosperous because of the rise in the value of the land he had previously purchased. He kept all his business records and we possess most of them today...
...Garvan is both to her Francis Patrick Garvan. She, daughter of the late very wealthy Anthony N. Brady, sister of Nicholas Frederic Brady (Anaconda Copper, gas & electric utilities, Chrysler Motors), chose him when he was a vigorous, powerful assistant district attorney in New York City.* He was her brother-in-law, brother of Nicholas F. Brady's wife Genevieve Garvan Brady. And ever since she has worked, sometimes behind him, usually beside him, never before him, always with him-through his private management of their joined wealth, his custodianship of alien property his presidency of the Chemical Foundation (which...