Word: cousin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whence your information that Charles Francis Adams, Boston sports promoter (TIME, Aug. 19), is "distant cousin of onetime Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams?" Look in the graveyard of any Boston newspaper to see if he is not a Jew whose name was changed by court decree, to the disgust of blue-blooded descendants of the second and sixth Presidents...
...CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS, ONETIME OWNER BOSTON BRAVES, DISTANT COUSIN ONETIME SECRETARY NAVY. YOU PROVE...
TIME based its statement on Sports Promoter Adams' frequent claim that he is an eighth cousin of the onetime Secretary of the Navy. Although the latter has never publicly denied the claim, his Cousin John Adams last week said: "I could name all the living members of various branches and Charles F. Adams absolutely is not of our family. I can assure you most definitely of that...
Panayoti Tsaldaris, though determined to restore the Throne and strong with the prestige of having just put down a Republican Revolution, is somewhat skittish about her cousin, ex-King Georgios II. One year was the short span of "Gorgeous Georgios' " kingship twelve years ago, and his childless ex-Queen divorced him recently (TIME, July 15). Two months ago Marina let it be understood that she, at any rate, is fecund. Last week the British public was supposed to think that the prospective young mother was merely resting in Yugoslavia at Prince Paul's romantic Bohinjsko Castle where...
...Distant cousin of onetime Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams...