Word: cousinly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Morris of Chicago, Woodrow Wilson's Minister to Sweden; Ambassador to Belgium, Dave Hennen Morris. New York Attorney; Minister to Holland, William Gorham Rice, New York State Civil Service Commissioner and onetime private secretary to Grover Cleveland; Minister to Canada, Warren Delano Robbins, the President's first cousin and the Department of State's Chief of Protocol. Still being kept wide open to await developments was the Ambassadorship to Germany...
...winning her second championship in a row last week, Dorothy Locke enhanced her chance of equalling the record of Adeline Gehrig, cousin of famed Baseballer Lou Gehrig and only woman to win the U. S. title four times running (1920-1923). To do so Dorothy Locke will have to ward off the challenge of stubby Muriel Guggolz, another Salle d'Armes Vince student and teammate with Locke and Lloyd on last year's U. S. Olympic team. A studious and prudent, albeit preternaturally sly, lady with a foil, little Miss Guggolz was not fencing for the championship last...
Married. Charles Seymour Whitman, 64, onetime (1915-18) Governor of New York; and Thelma Cudlipp Grosvenor, 40, relict of Attorney Edwin Prescott Grosvenor who was a cousin of William Howard Taft; in Manhattan...
Ralph Isidor Straus, 29, assistant general manager of R. H. Macy, became secretary; his cousin Jack Isidor Straus, 33. secretary of R. H. Macy, became vice president; Ralph's father and Jack's uncle, Percy Selden Straus, vice president of R. H. Macy, became president; Ralph's uncle. Jack's father and Percy's brother, Jesse Isidor Straus, resigned as president to become U. S. Ambassador to France. Last week Percy's and Jesse's brother, Herbert Nathan Straus, 51, died of heart trouble (see p. 36) two days after resigning as treasurer...
Alfonso XIII's father, Alfonso XII, was married to his pretty cousin Maria de las Mercedes de Montpensier only six months before she died. Almost immediately after he listened to the advice of his ministers and married the Habsburg archduchess Maria Christina, and to console himself entered into a liaison with the singer...