Word: cousin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There was not even a tenth cousin of a peace offer or anything like that," said the President, letting correspondents quote him directly ("provided you use this, not as a denial by the President, but as an accusation by the President...
Next week the two Washington columnists who have most consistently plugged all-out aid to Britain-the youthful, talented team, Joe Alsop and Bob Kintner-plan to go still further out. Short, dapper Bachelor Joe Alsop, 30, distant cousin of President Roosevelt, will join Naval Intelligence. Boyish Bob Kintner, 31, married to Broadway Producer Jean Rodney, will "very soon" join Army Intelligence. Their column ("The Capital Parade"; 74papers) will be discontinued June...
Commanding the destroyer Kelly in battle off the coast of Crete, lean, handsome Lord Louis Mountbatten made a safe escape as the ship rolled over and sank within 70 seconds of a direct hit by a German dive bomber. (The Germans had reported the Kelly officially sunk once before.) Cousin of King George and husband of famously wealthy Edwina Cynthia Ashley, Lord Louis had already had a narrow escape last year when his ship, the Javelin, was torpedoed in a Channel battle but limped safely to port. . . . Ferrying planes from factory to field in Britain was Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek...
Beneficiary of this shake-up was the Primo de Rivera clan, the royal family of the Falange. Falangist Arrese married a cousin of Founder José Antonio Primo de Rivera. But the big gainer was Foreign Minister Ramón Serrano Suòer, who as head of the Falange's Junta Politico, outranks Secretary General Arrese. Just how much Serrano and the Falange had gained was made clear in another decree removing the division of press and propaganda from the Ministry of Government and placing it in the hands of the Falange...
Their center is honest, confused Civil War Veteran John Cantrell who presumably represents the American character at its best. Flanking him are his good Socialist friend Marius Schaeffer and his cousin Harvey, a banker and industrialist. Other characters represent law and politics, the white-collar class, the racial minorities, the workers, the easy-money and criminal fringe...