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Symington then dipped for a bigger fish, and brought up Frank Prince, 54, assistant manager of RFC's central loan office, and a distant cousin of Alabama's party-giving Representative Frank W. Boykin, a millionaire Congressman whose standard line of greeting is "everything's made for love." Two years ago the Mobile Paper Co. asked for a $750,000 RFC loan. To get it, said Papermaker Reuben E. Hartman, he had to turn over 40% of the company's stock, with a par value of $640,000, to children, brothers and friends of Congressman Boykin...
...first, Prince denied that he had ever made such a call. But when RFC investigators found records showing that he had, and from Cousin Boykin's own office at that, Prince's memory improved. Still denying the accusations, he admitted the phone call. Last week, when Stu Symington sternly asked for an explanation, Frank Prince resigned...
...Teheran, at the declining but still magnificent court of the Kajar Shahs (who had ruled the country for more than a century, were deposed in 1925). His father, Mirza Hedayat, was for 30 years the Shah's Finance Minister. His mother, Najmos Saltaneh, was a Kajar princess, the cousin of the Shah Nasr-ed-Din, an uxorious monarch (he had 50 wives) who hated foreigners...
While visiting in Toronto, Sir Shane Leslie, cousin of Winston Churchill, dropped a genealogical footnote: "Six generations ago one of our ancestors, a Captain Wilcox, while riding home from the American Revolutionary War, met and later married a beautiful Indian half-caste. I believe that should make Mr. Churchill and me about one-twentieth Iroquois...
Ramrod Discipline. Today, under the superintendency of Major General Richard J. Marshall, distant cousin of General Marshall, V.M.I, stretches out over 300 acres, a place of fortress-like tan stucco-covered buildings, looming towers, and crenellated walls. V.M.I. still takes a fierce pride in its ramrod discipline. All cadets live, four to a room, in two adjoining barracks, kept always in inspection-ready order. Uniforms are hung on racks (there are no closets), cots are stacked each day, rifles and sabers are racked against the walls. The day officially begins with breakfast formation at 7 a.m. From then on-through...