Word: brothers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brother Francisco had been under fire in Morocco at the age of 17, helped General Milan Astray form the Spanish Foreign Legion, and got his first working knowledge of fascism when he was picked by Dictator Primo de Rivera to act as liaison officer with the French in the Riff campaign of 1925. He won his brigadiership and the distinction of being the youngest general in Spain at the age of 34. When a military academy was established at Saragossa young Francisco Franco became its first director...
When Zoologist Powell, who teaches in the University of Nebraska, realized that lobelessness was being bred out of his family, he started an investigation. He found that one of Mrs. Powell's brothers married a lobeless woman. All their children had lobes. Zoologist Powell's lobeless brother also married a lobeless woman. Their children had no ear lobes. Therefore, he reasoned, free ear lobes are dominant characters, adherent lobes are recessive, intermarriage eliminates lobeless ears...
...first if not foremost a lawyer-the sort of genial, persuasive, energetic man who takes naturally to public life without becoming a politician, the sort of man who might have become an inner councilor of the New Deal if his tastes and convictions had lain in that direction. Brother of the Riverside Church's Rector Harry Emerson Fosdick, he was born 54 years ago in Buffalo, graduated in 1905 from Princeton (to which university the Rockefellers have now given $700,000), emerged from New York Law School in 1908. Under Mayor McClellan he got into municipal government as assistant...
...Oakland, Calif., Cleone Goad, 13, married Leonard Newlun, 30. Miss Goad's mother's husband is a brother of Mr. Newlun. Consequently, Cleone is her mother's sister-in-law, and her stepfather is her brother...
...boss's daughter. Banker Fleishhacker has a cold, keen brain perfectly adapted to his job. In 1932, after various other mergers, the bank grew into the present Anglo California National Bank, fourth largest in California (total assets: $239,500,000), with Herbert Fleishhacker president, his quieter, older brother, Mortimer, chairman. Generally reputed to be heavy but highly successful investors, the Brothers Fleishhacker have interests in shipping, agriculture, oil, paper, mining, hotels, retail stores, cement...