Word: cousin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Frederick Snare is 77, has five great-grandchildren. John H. Allen is 83. Findlay S. Douglas was already voting when he won the U. S. Amateur golf championship in 1898. Frank T. Heffelfinger, cousin of Yale's Immortal Pudge Heffelfinger, was born before the Franco-Prussian...
...royal family came news that Lord Frederick Charles Edward Cambridge, cousin of King George VI and favorite nephew of Queen Mary, had also died in the Battle of Flanders as a captain in the elite Coldstream Guards, leaving his elder brother, the Marquess of Cambridge, without a male heir...
Last week it all came clear to Captain Joe. And the person who made it clear was his elegant, conventional, unsocial cousin, Publisher Robert Rutherford Mc-Cormick of the Chicago Tribune. Cousins Bertie and Joe have seldom agreed on editorial policy. In the last two elections, the News boomed Roosevelt, the Tribune booed him; later the News talked up the New Deal, the Tribune screamed it down. When the Tribune editorialized in favor of appeasing Japan last fortnight, no one dreamed the News would agree. But Colonel Bertie's title caught Captain Joe's eye: HOW TO DOUBLE...
Irish-born Dr. Kennedy, head of the Neurological Department of Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital, served four years with the British Army in World War I, is a cousin of Lieut. General Sir John Greer Dill, Chief of Staff of the British Army. In a florid, passionate speech on "Science, Civilization and Faith," he lashed out at a group of 500 eminent scientists, headed by Physicist Arthur Holly Compton of Chicage, who had sent a "peace resolution" to President Roosevelt...
...year of the Big Blizzard, German Immigrant Louis Blaustein landed in New York with 50? in his pocket, lent it to a needy cousin, headed for Baltimore. From a one-horse wagon he peddled cans of kerosene, soon got a job with John D. Rockefeller's up-&-coming Standard Oil Co. When he quit to go into business himself in 1910, he was rich enough to buy a one-horse tank wagon, and sell gasoline from the rear end while his son Jacob drove...