Word: cousinly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Taft himself was at the meeting for only two hours; the rest of the time, 52-year-old Dave Ingalls did the talking for him; the Taftmen well knew that he was eminently qualified for the job. A cousin* and long the closest friend of Mr. Republican, he is also Taft's personable junior partner, and the man in charge of his campaign. It was Ingalls who sparked Taft's Senate campaign in 1950; it was he who convinced Taft that he could win the presidential nomination...
Ingalls took a fling at the Ohio governorship in 1932 (he lost), worked his way up in Ohio GOPolitics to state chairman and national committeeman. In 1940 he slaved to get Cousin Bob Taft nominated for the presidency (says he of Taft's defeat by Willkie: "It just happened...
Even though champagne sales were bubbling higher, especially exports to the U.S. and Japan, no smiles wreathed the face of Otto Henkell Jr., head of Henkell & Co., leading West German champagne house. Otto Henkell was having trouble in the family-Cousin Rudolf again. A West German court ruled that Otto must hire 31-year-old Cousin Rudolf, whose father, Joachim von Ribbentrop, was once a Henkell champagne salesman-and "not our best salesman, either," as Otto often said...
...Ribbentrop's contract on such reasoning would be tantamount to Sippenhaft. Freely translated, Sippenhaft means the arrest or punishment of relatives for offenses done by another of the family-an old practice of Hitler's and Stalin's. The court's order: Otto must hire Cousin Rudolf within two years, make him a partner in another two years. By that time, January 1956, the learned court predicted, Western civilization will no longer be scared away or horrified by the name of Ribbentrop...
Said Otto grimly: Cousin Rudolf "will be put in a job where he can do the least possible harm...