Word: brother-in-law
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...recovered at last, sufficiently to lay upon the grave a wreath of lilies, which she had picked herself, and a large pillow of white roses sent from Paris by Prince Carol. Near her there stood during the ceremony her son-in-law, King Alexander of Jugoslavia, her brother-in-law, Prince Hohenzollern-Sigmarigen, and the deposed King George II of Greece. Airplanes dropped flowers, and the earth trembled slightly at a long farewell salute of 101 guns...
Born luckily to place and power, Premier Jon Bratiano has held and builded upon both. He and his brother Vintila, and brother-in-law Prince Babu Stirbey (intimate of Queen Marie) control the State. They dominate Rumanian banking, oil, manufactures. Their large estates are worked by peasants in a manner all but feudal. Because they have used their power to systematically exploit Rumania, a tide of public indignation periodically rises, and before it M. Bratiano resigns the Premiership, announces that he has "retired," and proceeds to lie in wait...
...purely as a life-saver for the city hall officials) declared unconstitutional. They talked also of bringing impeachment proceedings against Mayor John L. Duvall. The Mayor, elected in 1925 with the support of the Ku Klux Klan, will shortly go on trial, along with the City Comptroller, his brother-in-law, for political corruption in the 1925 election. The Indianapolis election was generally interpreted as the end of "Klan rule" in Indiana, though there was very little organized opposition to the City Manager movement...
Died. James Roosevelt Roosevelt, 73, philanthropist, half-brother of onetime Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin Delano Roosevelt; father-in-law of present Assistant Secretary of the Navy Theodore Douglas Robinson; onetime brother-in-law of the late Colonel John Jacob Astor; of asthma; at his estate, Red House, near Hyde Park...
...York he received the Distinguished Service Medal for "exceptionally meritorious service" with the British Grand Fleet in the North Seas. In 1918 hs became Rear Admiral; in 1925 he was made Commander-in-Chief of the U. S. Battle Fleet, succeeding Admiral Samuel S. Robison, his brother-in-law. Admirals Hughes and Robison both married daughters of the late Rear Admiral Charles E. Clark, who commanded the Oregon in its famed dash around Cape Horn in the Spanish-American...