Word: cousinly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...revealed at Paris by his aide Captain Paul Dimitrescu who accompanied him to Munich. The captain said that Carol, responding to a telegram from his mother Dowager Queen Marie, had packed up to go and meet her for a "family council" at Sigmaringen in Germany, home of Carol's cousin Prince Friedrich, "head of the Catholic branch of the House of Hohenzollern...
...does choose, a way was at least indicated last week. Archduke Rainer Carl, an unimportant, very distant cousin, died in penury in Vienna a few days after Albrecht acclaimed Otto. Wily ex-Empress Zita, Otto's mother, saw in the death a chance to bring all remaining Habsburgs under her son's banner. Magnificently she ordered a royal funeral for the pauper, had him interred next to the bones of Emperor Franz Josef and for the first time in more than a decade Vienna saw the yellow and black flag of the Habsburgs on public view...
Even had not the late President made it so difficult, William Emlen Roosevelt would never have striven for the prominence of his cousin. His philanthropies, many, were ever discreet. His financial aid, if such existed, to his cousin (who though well off was never as rich as he) was never given publicity. William Emlen Roosevelt was a Roosevelt of Roosevelt & Sons, founded in 1797. He was not, even in Death, a Roosevelt of the front page...
...sons, George Emlen, Philip J. and John Kean, survive him and, even as he succeeded his father to leadership of Roosevelt & Sons, so do George and Philip succeed him.* They, unlike him. how ever, have no cousin who is President...
...blurb: "... A young writer with experience as a newspaper reporter, known to readers of Liberty through her articles on hunting, fishing and flying. This time she has turned to fiction." Omitted from blurb: She is the attractive socialite daughter of Captain Joseph Medill Patterson, who divides with his cousin, Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick, management of Liberty, Chicago Tribune, New York Daily News. It was on the tabloid News that Daughter Alicia worked in 1927 as a $30-a-week sobsister, was once thrown downstairs by an irate Hoboken housewife whom she sought to interview on henpecking. To other Chicago...