Word: cousin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Republican bolter to Roosevelt : Mrs. Marion Pollard Burrows, "lifelong Republican from the State of Vermont and a first cousin of former President Calvin Coolidge...
...rose to flay New York's Democratic Governor Herbert Lehman, who (along with Henry Wallace) had suggested that the Axis powers wanted Roosevelt beaten. Lehman himself was fanning a war hysteria, said Holt, in order to swell the dividends of Lehman Corp., of which his cousin is president, and which, said Holt, holds shares in Bendix Aviation, Vultee, Stinson and Lockheed Aircraft, Hercules Powder, Dow Chemical, New York Shipbuilding, Freeport Sulphur, and Bethlehem, Republic, Youngstown and U. S. Steel...
...Deborah Delano, 93, who bolted the Republican Party to vote for her third cousin Franklin Roosevelt in 1932, bolted back last week, declaring: "Even if he is as smart as they say, no man is smart enough to run for three terms...
...Britons felt pity, too-for nice old Sir Reginald Hervey Hoare, Britain's Minister. A distant cousin of Sir Samuel Hoare, he used to be quite a figure of a man-tall, with a handsome white-haired head, careless in dress and indolent of speech, kindly, dry, hospitable. He was a great friend of Carol, and used to converse with the King in Rumanian with a splendid British accent. But his health had gone, his retirement was long overdue, and the driving out of Carol left him at 58 broken and bitter. Last week he scurried about trying...
...Fort McPherson, Ga., Private Elbert Lee Hull was sworn into the Army, explained he had talked things over with Grandfather Louis Hull, but not with Grandfather Louis' distinguished nephew, U. S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull. "I didn't think it right to ask too much of Cousin Cordell, so I just signed up without . . . any help from the judge...