Word: father-in-law
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...after next summer's Gold Cup races, the most important U. S. motorboat contest of the year. Parisian Publisher Jean Dupuy is a director of the sporting Cote d'Azur Club on the Riviera. His teammates were Baron Rothschild and Marquis Gonzalo de la Gandara, whose father-in-law, Marquis d'lvanrey, builds Soriano motors. Spain and England sent two men each, Hungary and Sweden one. Italy, where motorboat racing is encouraged by the Government, did not send a team for the outboard competition but sent its three best drivers to compete in the 12-litre races...
...amiable soldiers and civilians stood guard around President Hevia's palace. Getting the heavy scent of trouble, the ABC revolutionary society boys handed around a fresh shipment of guns. Two days after he had been sworn in, President Hevia suddenly sent his resignation, not to his father-in-law Supreme Court Justice Edelman who had administered the oath, but to Colonel Batista. Then he dropped two dirty shirts into his bags and led his wife, little daughter and brother-in-law out of the Presidential Palace...
...line politicos, Carlos Mendieta y Montefur. Exhausted by his all-night job, Batista was still sound asleep that noon when President Mendieta pushed through a cheering, laughing mob with 20 potent politico friends to take the oath of office from his predecessor's well-trained father-in-law...
...into the New Deal as director of air regulation. He was only one of five candidates for the top post of Director of Aeronautics which replaced the Assistant Secretaryship for Aeronautics. Most of his rivals had red-hot political supporters working for them. But Senator Gore, his father-in-law, did not, as many supposed, lift a finger to help him. Gene Vidal was less astonished than his competitors when the final appointment came through...
Died. George Jones, 77, Negro, one-time father-in-law of Leonard Kip Rhinelander; in New Rochelle...