Word: cousin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago's Passavant Memorial Hospital last week lay Philip Danforth Armour IV, great-grandson of the packing house founder, with a light attack of infantile paralysis. A few miles away lay lightly stricken his distant cousin, Charles Armour, in his own Lake Forest home. Both contracted the disease presumably at St. Mark's, whence their parents snatched them last month at first word of epidemic. To a hospital room next to their son went Philip Danforth Armour III and his wife Gwendolin. Said the mother: "It is worth the risk to stay near him." Fourteen years ago Philip...
Married. Nicholas Roosevelt, 43, one-time (1930-33) U. S. Minister to Hungary, editorial writer for the New York Herald Tribune, first cousin of Theodore Roosevelt; and Tirzah Maris Gates, daughter of the late California State Senator Egbert James Gates; in Pasadena, Calif...
Last week RFChairman Jesse Holman Jones blew a choice railroad reorganization plan out of his office with one impatient blast only to find it again on his desk, with modifications, a few days later. This resilient scheme belonged to President Roosevelt's fifth cousin once removed, Philip James Roosevelt, a Manhattan banker who fortnight ago shocked a Senatorial subcommittee by declaring that his kinsman's government was thievish. As chairman of a bondholders' committee for Minneapolis & St. Louis R. R., Banker Roosevelt was trying to get his own reorganization plan approved rather than see the road devoured...
Died. Robert B. Delano, 22, son of Manhattan Capitalist Lyman Delano, cousin and onetime Harvard roommate of Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr.; by his own hand (shooting); on a plantation near Barranqueras, Argentine Chaco...
...which has a thumb opposable to its fingers, eats with its hands and gives birth to one young at a time.* If there was a Tarsius on the human family tree, Dr. Jepsen thinks the little sharp-toothed primate of Big Horn Basin was his contemporary-a sort of cousin...