Word: cousin
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Distant in kin but near in spirit to Louisiana's late Huey Pierce Long is his California cousin, Minor Pierce Long. Round, pink-faced Mr. Long is a Missourian who went west and into the dairy business, picked up extra money lecturing on what he calls "metaphysics." One night in 1933, he now recalls, he woke up with an idea for an economic cureall, forthwith explained it to his wife and two daughters. They did not understand it. Minor Pierce Long nevertheless went ahead with his Ray System Corporation, Inc. As has many another fiscal dreamer, he proposed...
Dominic Mussolini, 57, unemployed steel worker, second cousin of the Italian dictator, with whom he used to play as a child, became a U. S. citizen in Warren, Ohio. Anton Lang Jr., professor of German at Georgetown University, son of the late Cristus of the Oberammergau Passion Play, filed a petition for U. S. citizenship in Washington...
Sirs: Among the letters in TIME, Aug. 21 was one from my cousin, Charles A. Storms, on the subject of cancer patients. You may be interested to learn that he died on August...
...Franklin Roosevelt journeyed the farthest north that he had been while President. Dogged by fogs which delayed the comings & goings of his mail planes, he cruised on the Tuscaloosa to Halifax and Sydney, N. S., thence to Bay of Islands and Bonne Bay, Newfoundland. Not since he and his cousin Gracie Hall Roosevelt went there in 1908 had he fished for salmon in the gorge of Newfoundland's Humber River. Water and weather were perfect but Fisherman Roosevelt landed no salmon after trying all day. Brigadier General Edwin M. ("Pa") Watson got the party's one fish...
With the Snites on the trip to Lourdes went a schoolfriend of Fred's sister, the tall, brunette daughter of a Dayton, Ohio businessman. To forestall comment, she was generally referred to as "Cousin Teresa." Evenings she would sit and converse with Fred's head...