Word: cousin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Doyle, international lawyer from Philadelphia and Dr. Charles G. Fenwick, professor of political science at Bryn Mawr, because they are Catholics; Dr. Samuel Guy Inman because he is a Protestant. The delegation even has a "special assistant," Mrs. Warren Delano Robbins, svelte widow of the President's cousin who was Minister to Canada. Besides all these there are a working staff from the State Department, the U. S. Ambassador to Argentina and the U. S. Minister to Bolivia. The entire delegation occupies two floors of Argentina's most fashionable hotel, the Alvear Palace, on the famous Avenida Alvear...
...King Ranch employes near the scene were arrested on suspicion. Caesar Kleberg, manager of the southern division of the Ranch, Cousin of Robert Kleberg, head of the Ranch, and of Richard Kleberg, U. S. Representative from Corpus Christi, announced that he hoped the disappearance of the Blantons would be cleared up even if Kleberg employes were involved. That helped no more than search by air, auto and horseback which went on for a week...
...Town Hall of Fort Worth, Tex. invited Elliott Roosevelt (second son) to introduce his fifth-cousin-once-removed, Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt Jr., when she came to town to lecture on "Life in the Philippines." Informed of the invitation, she wrote Elliott that her husband's political views "differed in every respect from those of your father, the President. It would be embarrassing to all concerned for you to appear." Elliott obliged...
...came suddenly to a decision. No Catholic, Ballard on the inspiration of the moment presented his huge circular West Baden Springs Hotel (once valued at $3,000,000) as a gift to the Jesuits, to be turned into a college. Before the day was out he called his cousin and employe, Norman Ballard, into his office and sold him Brown's and the Gorge, a neighboring gambling place. By nightfall Ed Ballard was a retired businessman...
Volunteers. One feature of the arch-Republican New York Herald Tribune'?, (circulation: 317,000) campaign to put Franklin Roosevelt out of the White House has been the exhaustive coverage it has given to the least utterance of Publisher Ogden Reid's cousin. Hoover Secretary of the Treasury Ogden Mills. Another has been the behavior of its distinguished columnists-the lamentation of Mark Sullivan, the oscillation of Dorothy Thompson, the tergiversation of Walter Lippmann. Another has been its feature, ''The Roosevelt Record," a disparaging comparison of Roosevelt promise and performance syndicated to 18 other papers...