Word: cousin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Toluca, Mexico May 20, 1848 "Dear Cousin...
Allied air headquarters in North Africa reported that famed Baron Field Marshal Wolfram von Richthofen, a remote cousin of the World War I hero, had been sent to the Mediterranean to command Kesselring's air forces. The Allied statement said that Kesselring and Richthofen had quarreled before, suggested that they may be quarreling...
...Associated Press a monopoly?-finally reached court last week. On the expediting court bench sat three of the country's top-rank jurists, all of the U. S. Circuit Court: 1) learned Judge Learned Hand, 71, a remarkable stylist, liberal, a truly brilliant judge; 2) his cousin, Augustus Noble Hand, 73, singularly gifted with horse sense; 3) Thomas Walter Swan, 65, longtime (1916-37) dean of Yale's law school...
...trouble could be traced to President Rios' cousin, counselor and close friend, Interior Minister Raul Morales Beltrami, who would automatically become acting president during the President's absence. Dr. Morales' ambition and aggressive youth (36) had rubbed many of his colleagues the wrong way. Feeling against him mounted over the prospect that he would run the country temporarily...
...reorganizing his Cabinet, President Rios dropped cousin Morales, but not without bitter words for "politicians" who "occupy their time frustrating" public officials. To the Interior Ministry he appointed the Commander in Chief and Director General of the Chilean Navy, pro-Allied Vice Admiral Julio Allard