Word: cousin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Advertiser Chandler, a pious, scholarly young Manhattan lawyer and gentleman , farmer, was simply following the lead of his cousin. Representative James W. Wadsworth Jr., stanch Old Guardsman, who had already threatened to grow & sell illegal potatoes on his own ancestral acres in the Genesee Valley. Well did Republican Wadsworth know that New Dealers had had no hand in attaching the drastic, punitive Potato Control Act of 1935 as a rider to the AAAmendments (TIME, Sept. 9). But he also knew that the Act was a natural evolution of their crop restriction program, that whatever indignation could be stirred up against...
...Cannes on the palmy Riviera last week duty called Edward of Wales to inspect the British destroyer H. M. S. Wishart, commanded by his cousin Lord Louis Mountbatten. Some years ago Alfonso XIII, then King of Spain, thought the Prince was deliberately insulting him when H. R. H. turned up at a review of the Spanish fleet in civilian grey flannels and a floppy soft hat (TIME, May 16, 1927). Last week loyal British residents of Cannes and officers of the Wishart understood that nothing was amiss when Royal Edward arrived for the inspection wearing rope-soled sandals, grey linen...
...found an ally in Louis Philippe, then Duc d'Orleans, who wanted the Prince's wealth left to one of his sons. Brightest of Marjorie Bowen's witty characterizations is that of Louis Philippe, son of Egalite who during the revolution had voted for his own cousin's execution. Educated according to the principles of Rousseau, prudent, embarrassingly virtuous, Louis Philippe played a despicable game. Prince de Condé detested him for his democratic affectations, which included carrying a humble and unnecessary umbrella. Irresolute as he was, the Prince was determined never to leave his wealth...
What slim, ascetic Dr. Sigmund Freud is to Psychoanalysis, bald, beefy Major Clifford Hugh Douglas is to Social Credit. The Major, a Scottish engineer, a graduate of Cambridge and a cousin of Lord Weir, once worked for Westinghouse in India, now has his swank abode in London and contrives to rent his ideas for fat fees. In 1934 the Alberta Government which was thrown out last week paid him $30,000 to go to Calgary and expound views which they proceeded to ignore but which fired High School Principal William Aberhart and his Prophetic Bible Institute, spurred them...
...Spital to Austrian-born Adolf Hitler's maternal uncle Anton Schmidt. Austrian neighbors in Spital expected no condolences from the Realmleader. "Uncle Anton," they recalled, tried vainly for years to sponge on his illustrious but close-pursed nephew;. Finally he egged one of his sons to beg Cousin Adolf to send him $3 to buy a Nazi brown shirt. Replied the Realmleader: "Dear Cousin: You must buy your uniform with your own money. I am unable to accommodate...