Word: brother-in-law
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Wife's Cousin's Brother-in-law...
Please let Heflin alone for a while. Next thing you know he will discover and announce that TIME'S editor's wife's cousin's brother-in-law had a Catholic grandmother. Or is it possible that you get your popishness less indirectly...
...state that Mr. Robert E. Wood, recently elected President of Sears, Roebuck & Co. is a brother-in-law of Senator Thomas Hardwick of Georgia (TIME, Jan. 23). This is not correct for Senator Hardwick is a very distant cousin of Mr. Wood's wife...
Chiang Kai-shek, Generalissimo of the nominally democratic Nationalist Govern-ment at Nanking, make a spacious gesture, last week: He backed his brother-in-law, Finance Minister T. V. Soong, in promulgating a one-sentence exaggerated boast and flat defy to Chang Tso-lin, thus: "As the Nationalist Govern-ment controls sixteen of the twenty-one provinces of China, producing nearly 70% of the customs revenue, and as the authorities in control at Peking no longer repre- sent the legal successor of the former recognized Government, the Nationalist Government clearly cannot recognize the right of any other authorities independently...
...begin the story, he was the $18-a-week clerk in his brother-in-law's cigar store in Park Row, lower Manhattan, 37 years...