Word: cousin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gashouse in Congress for 15 of his 52 years, squarejawed, redheaded, truculent Representative John Joseph O'Connor. A Massachusetts Irishman who has two blood ties with the New Deal (his younger brother Basil was Franklin Roosevelt's law partner and Janizary Thomas Corcoran is his fourth cousin), Tammany's O'Connor has been only an off & on New Dealer. He has been off more than on since the White House helped Texas' Sam Rayburn beat him for the House Leadership, a situation not unlike that created when the President pushed "Dear Alben" Barkley into...
...wore it only twice in eight years before she went off with "the handsomest man in the U. S. Army," Captain Putnam Bradlee Strong. Though he pawned most of her jewelry, she married him year later, only to be deserted shortly afterward. In 1914 she married Captain Jan Smuts, cousin of South Africa's great general, settled down to obscurity minus the unlucky diamond. Last May she was discovered working as a $16.50-per-week WPA clerk...
Nicotinic acid, a distant relative (about second cousin once removed) of tobacco's nicotine, is found in yeast, wheat germ and liver. When considerable quantities were fed to some 300 patients with pellagra, their sores healed, their cramps disappeared. Even patients who were violently insane dramatically regained their wits within 48 hours. In a few days they were able to eat pellagra-preventing foods...
While Secretary of the Interior Harold LeClair Ickes and his bride were having fun in Alaska, 2 of his kin were having fun at the 11th annual reunion of the Clan Ickes at Ickesberg, Pa. Sister Julia came on from Altoona. Distant Cousin Bill, a $1,300 clerk in Cousin Harold's PWA, and Third Cousin Patrick, a $1,620 clerk in his National Park Service, came on from Washington. Present also was Henry Adams Ickes of the U. S. Housing Authority, who claims no kinship to Harold at all. Doings: prayers, speeches, house-to-house gossiping, the unveiling...
...largest department store (largest: Marshall Field & Co.); of chronic myocarditis (inflammation of the muscular walls of the heart); at Newport, R. I. Sportsman Pirie's brother John Taylor Pirie, 66, is the store's president, Son Samuel Carson Pirie Jr. is in its retail merchandising division, Second Cousin Samuel Pirie Carson is store operations manager. There are five other Piries, all kin, no other Carsons, in Carson Pirie Scott. Of Scotts there are four left...