Word: cousin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That was why the voice of Strom Thurmond, with its counterfeit arguments for states' rights, and the voice of his cousin, Georgia's "Hummon" Talmadge, with its white demagoguery, were listened to and generally, if not unanimously, applauded in the Southland. These were the voices of the apologists and the defenders...
Intruder in the Dust makes the reader work, it is not easy reading. But the reward is worth the trouble. It can be read as a detective story, a humorous idyl (a kind of second cousin to Huckleberry Finn), an outraged, descriptive exhortation to Southern society, a parable of modern life. It is also a triumphant work...
Manhattan papers chose to ignore most of the story. But the New York Star added its bit of mystery. It told about a memo written by Cissie Patterson after a squabble with her cousin, the Chicago Tribune's Colonel Bertie McCormick, over management of the family's New York Daily News. Shortly before Cissie's death, said the Star, she wrote Bertie a memo that she was going to change her will...
...First cousin once removed to Pennsylvania's onetime political boss, Boies Penrose...
Married. William Vacanarat Shadrach Tubman, 52, dapper, coal-black President of the Liberian Republic; and Antoinette Padmore, thirtyish, granddaughter of Liberian ex-President Arthur Barclay and cousin of Tubman's predecessor, Edwin Barclay; he for the third time, she for the first; in Monrovia, Liberia...