Word: cousin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Supreme Court bench, served there 33 years (1877-1911), won fame as a "great dissenter", a stern defender of civil liberty. Last fortnight in Danville (pop. 6,800) another Judge Harlan gazed sternly at two young men before him. He was Police Judge Jay W. Harlan, a third cousin. One of the young men was Jack Durham, 23, city editor of the Danville Advocate and local correspondent for Associated Press. The other was Wesley Carty, 23, correspondent for the Louisville Courier-Journal. The judge, trying to learn who was responsible for hanging of a State Representative in effigy, was sure...
...tumble-down little house overlooking a backyard dump in Pittsburgh, newshawks found a tattered sexagenarian living on relief funds, identified him as William Andrew Mellon, first cousin of one-time Secretary of the Treasury Andrew William Mellon. Said Cousin William: 'T need this place because I can read, study, think and dream. . . . Andy has been sending me money monthly...
...west of the Rockies"), Castle & Cooke, Alexander & Baldwin, Theodore Davies & Co. These firms, controlled by old missionary-merchant families and interlocked by marriage, own or act as agents for most of Hawaii's sugar plantations. At the turn of the century James D. Dole, no islander but a second cousin of Patriarch Sanford, came out from Boston, and started the pineapple business which made him many a million. After suffering huge losses in 1931 and 1932, his Hawaiian Pineapple Co. was reorganized, and Castle & Cooke took a hand in its management...
...night last week the Rajah's cousin stepped out across the Rajah's steaming acres. A snarling sounded nearby. Down a corridor of trees the cousin looked into the slavering jaws of 80 police dogs, charging out of the night. He began to run. In the morning trembling servants of the Rajah of Athgarh brought him several chewed tatters of his cousin...
Distantly related to Producer Delano is Chile's present Minister to Washington, Don Emilio Edwards. Not long ago the President gave him a book about the Chilean adventures of a Delano to be presented to Santiago's University. At Seville in 1929 Fourth Cousin Jorge, who is closer kin to the 32nd President of the U. S. than the 32nd President was to the 26th President, won the Ibero-American Cinema Grand Prix with his silent Chilean film, The Street of Dreams...