Word: daughter-in-law
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...four other men appeared; the young officers fired in their general direction; the men fled. Some one heard a key turning in a keyhole. Part of the group stormed the door, broke it down, and came on the Prime Minister, a tiny, alert man of 75, and his daughter-in-law, holding a baby. The Prime Minister calmly invited them into the room, lit a cigaret and started a polite conversation...
...came Roosevelt family pictures of a kind rare since 1940, warmly reminiscent of the peacetime past. The President's transcontinental reunions included one near San Diego (top), with son John & wife, daughter-in-law Romelle (Mrs. James), daughter Anna & her husband John Boettiger; another at son Elliott's Fort Worth ranch (bottom), with daughter-in-law Ruth (Mrs. Elliott) & son Elliott Jr., 6, daughter Chandler, 8, baby David...
...among the most revolting of the many assassinations by which the militarists worked for power against Japan's financial and political oligarchy. The murderers broke into the Premier's official residence toward the end of a bland spring afternoon, found him at ease with his daughter-in-law, her two children and a family friend. Two officers slammed bearded, aging little Ki Inukai against a wall while others raised their pistols. "Please don't shoot," he begged. "Maybe we can settle this." Two bullets drilled his head...
...famed words during the attack on Pearl Harbor, wrote a "fighting hymn," Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition. General Manager Kent Cooper of the Associated Press tapped out America Needs You. Citizens Song had words by Louis Conyers (pen name of Mrs. Junius Spencer Morgan, daughter-in-law of John Pierpont Morgan...
...Junius Spencer Morgan, daughter-in-law of J. P., wrote Citizens' Song for the Citizens' Committee for the Army & Navy, whose vice chairman she is. The song was sung by oldtime Soprano Anna Case (widow of Clarence H. Mackay), with Fritz Kreisler at the piano, at a beefsteak party in a Manhattan brewery. Chorus...