Word: cousin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York Daily News, is alarmed over the possibility that Wendell Willkie may be a Presidential candidate against Franklin Roosevelt in 1944. (Daily News circulation: 2,000,000 copies, largest in the U.S.). Since Franklin Roosevelt's candidacy is assured, and since Publisher Patterson, like his cousin Robert Rutherford McCormick of the Chicago Tribune, badly wants an Old Guard Republican in the White House, the Patterson blows fall heaviest on Candidate Willkie. At regular intervals, anti-Willkie, anti-Roosevelt Mr. Patterson keeps the ball rolling with the editorial query: "Really, must we go through all that again...
Married. Lady Sarah Consuelo Spencer-Churchill, 21, eldest daughter of the Duke of Marlborough, great-granddaughter of the late William K. Vanderbilt, first cousin (twice-removed) of the Prime Minister; and U.S. Naval Lieut. Edwin Russell, peacetime New Jersey newspaper publisher (and no kin to anybody famous); in London...
...35th Division's (Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska) Quartermaster regiment. But there was more to the grudge. After the 1941 maneuvers Lear had the thankless job of overhauling his command, and one of the heads to roll was that of 61-year-old Major General Ralph E. Truman of Missouri, cousin of Missouri's junior Senator Harry Truman. Statesman Clark denounced Ben Lear from the Senate floor...
...bald, bocce-loving Marshal Pietro Badoglio, generally accounted Italy's best soldier, loyal supporter and honorary "cousin of the King." After taking the blame for the debacle in Greece, Badoglio was allowed to retire to his red-haired Russian mistress and his gaudy palace in Rome...
Arrogant, deceitful, a complete little Nazi, Emil flaunts his swastika, spits on the U.S., spies for the Führer, tries a divide-&-conquer technique on the house hold, plots to break up his uncle's marriage to a Jewish schoolteacher. When he almost murders his little cousin, his patient elders are ready to give up. But they ask themselves what chance there is of rehabilitating 12,000,000 kids if they can not cope with one. They do a good deal of ferreting into Emil's youthfully warped nature. Emil himself, as the curtain falls, shows signs...