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Word: cousin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scant background in politics or statesmanship. But his royal presence at the head of the Government could be a safeguard for the Imperial institution, and it might allay popular unrest. In the Japanese mind the Prince's relationship to the Emperor is threefold. He is Hirohito's cousin, because he is the grandson of a brother of one of Hirohito's great-grandfathers. He is Hirohito's uncle, because he is married to the sister of Hirohito's father (Emperor Taisho). He is Hirohito's inlaw, because his son is the husband of Hirohito...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Task and Taskmaster | 8/27/1945 | See Source »

...witness chair stepped dapper Prince Xavier de Bourbon-Parme, cousin of Archduke Otto of Austria and an ex-inmate of Dachau concentration camp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Wives & Witnesses | 8/20/1945 | See Source »

...Always known as Sir Bernard, to avoid confusion with older cousin Rear Admiral Henry Clive Rawlings, recently in service as a convoy commodore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF JAPAN: Insult & Injury | 7/30/1945 | See Source »

Said Major Charles Biddle, World War I ace (seven planes), Philadelphia lawyer, cousin of Francis (lately Attorney General) and a swarm of other Philadelphia Biddles: "There would appear to be no good reason why Mr. Bitle should be permitted to . . . give the impression he was of English origin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bitle v. Biddle | 7/23/1945 | See Source »

Died. Countess Baldwin of Bewdley. seventyish, motherly, speechifying wife of Britain's ex-Prime Minister Stanley Bald win (they met at the home of his cousin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 2, 1945 | 7/2/1945 | See Source »

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