Word: cousinly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...repay his political debt to the South for its vote in 1928, appointed John Johnston Parker, a North Carolina Republican, to the Supreme Court only to have the Senate reject him (TIME, May 19, 1930 et ante). No less sainted a Republican than the late great Theodore Roosevelt (fifth cousin) believed that the Supreme Court should reflect the political conviction of the President...
...first dynastic union to take place on German soil since the Fatherland became a Republic in 1919. King George, who hides his German light under a bushel and has changed his name to Windsor, was not there. Neither were any of his sons. But His Majesty's first cousin, Prince Arthur of Connaught, strode up the aisle in the tight scarlet of a British guardsman. Deposed Kaiser Wilhelm was represented by his grandson Prince Wilhelm, in field grey topped by a steel helmet. Two most exalted shadows came in person. They were mystic, crystal-gazing Ferdinand, a Coburg...
...spender, dandy, duellist, onetime husband of Jay Gould's daughter Anna; of a paralytic stroke; in Paris. He battened his reputation for the grand manner with his wife's millions. She divorced him for presenting her with "kings & emperors one day, slaps the next," married his cousin, Duc de Talleyrand. "Boni'' wrote two books, How I Discovered America and The Art of Being Poor, worked as middleman between auctioneers & wealthy foreigners. His title, traced by him to the year 1000, by genealogists to a Toulouse lawyer who appropriated and revived it under the reign of Napoleon...
William Aver ell Harriman resigned as chairman of Aviation Corp. to devote more time to his chairmanship of Union Pacific Railroad. He was succeeded by Robert Lehman, 41, his classmate at Yale (1913), partner in Lehman Bros., second cousin of Herbert Lehman, Democratic candidate for Governor of New York...
...chief Pew now is the founder's son, John Howard Pew, 50, who serves as president. His brother, Joseph Newton Pew Jr., is a vice president as is his nephew Arthur Edmund Pew and his first cousin James Edgar Pew. Together they dominate the six-man board of directors. They all live in smart Ardmore. President Pew's chief outside interest is Grove City College (Presbyterian) which his father founded and over whose trustees he presides...