Word: cousin
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...Roosevelt, who had inculcated in him her own love of collecting and given him his first stamps. She was 26 when she married a widower twice her age, James Roosevelt, 52, a member of the landed gentry of the Hudson Valley and ex-President Theodore Roosevelt's fourth cousin once removed. Franklin was her only child, and she kept him in dresses and long curls until he was five. He was 14 before he first went to school, to Groton and then Harvard. He maintained what was known as "a gentleman's C average" and yearned...
Roosevelt did better at Columbia Law School, then sampled life at the prestigious Wall Street firm of Carter, Ledyard and Milburn. When he married his high-minded cousin Eleanor in 1905, his mother bought and furnished their house. Roosevelt restlessly entered local politics, won a seat in the state senate, made himself a name as a "reformer" by blocking a Tammany Hall candidate for the U.S. Senate. Woodrow Wilson made him Assistant Secretary of the Navy, and Roosevelt went on to win the vice-presidential nomination in the doomed 1920 campaign of James C. Cox. The next year, after...
...College--he asked President Eliot who he was backing in the upcoming presidential election. McKinley, Eliot (not surprisingly) replied, and the rest of the Republican ticket. The answer and the subsequent front story must have pleased the young comper--the "rest of the Republican ticket" meant, of course, cousin Theodore...
...including funds from such corporate clients as General Foods, TRW and Hughes Aircraft. New Court's other owners include N.M. Rothschild & Sons in London, which represents the English branch of the family and is headed by Evelyn de Rothschild, 50, and the Rothschild Zurich bank, of which Swiss Cousin Baron Edmond de Rothschild is part owner...
That bullishness on America's prospects is shared by Co-Chairman Guy, who has been commuting monthly since last June between Paris and New Court's offices in New York City's Rockefeller Center. Guy will not move permanently to the U.S., and Cousin Elie's son Nathaniel, 34, a graduate of the Harvard Business School, is a prime candidate to direct U.S. operations eventually. Says Guy: "My great-grandfather sent one of his sons, my grandfather Alphonse, to America in 1848. After returning to France, Alphonse pleaded with his father that...