Word: cousin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Field Marshal Viscount Wavell of Cyrenaica and Winchester, the one-eyed soldier who did not always see eye-to-eye with his Labor Government bosses in London, or with Indian leaders. In his place would be handsome, 46-year-old "Dickie" Mountbatten (Rear Admiral Viscount Mountbatten of Burma), second cousin of King George...
...Cousin Thee" (as Teddy Roosevelt was known in the family) had relatively little to do with the family business. But Roosevelt & Son had plenty of the strenuous life. Founded by James I. Roosevelt (who later took his son Cornelius into partnership), the firm started out as a hardware shop in Maiden Lane, barely opened its doors before Manhattan was swept by yellow fever. The shop not only survived the epidemic but within a few years was so prosperous that it began dis counting notes for other merchants. This led to other financial activities, and the hardware business was finally abandoned...
...medical burden falls most heavily is 56-year-old Dr. J. Heng Liu, a onetime director of PUMC. Harvard-trained Dr. Liu was China's public health chief before the war, and Army Surgeon General during the war, is now chief medical officer of CNRRA (a cousin of UNRRA) and medical director of the American Bureau for Medical Aid to China...
Died. Marcus Allen Coolidge, 81, one-term (1931-37) Democratic Senator from Massachusetts, special envoy to Poland during Wilson's .administration, distant cousin of the late President Coolidge; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Miami...
...Daphne, who owns three already, was well pleased. His site was a rocky knoll off upper Market Street, its only building a battered shed decorated with an old election poster. When Wright gets through with it the place will resemble a miniature World's Fair; a glamorous cousin of Southern California's lively Forest Lawn Memorial Park (TIME...