Word: father-in-law
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...Japan, grateful for the legal prowess he displayed in Japan's behalf when Manchuria was last up before the League (TIME, March 21). Peremptory instructions to oppose the Hoover program at all costs were cabled from Tokyo to Japan's Chief Delegate at Geneva, Ambassador Tsuneo Matsudaira, father-in-law of Japan's Crown Prince...
...Traction Co., owner of the property, threatened to break it up, sell it as building lots. Mrs. Charles Phelps Taft, wife of the publishing half-brother of William Howard Taft, gave $125,000 to prevent the split-up. Another $125,000 was given by Mrs. Mary Emery whose father-in-law, Thomas Emery, made one of the first big real estate fortunes in Cincinnati, increased it by manufacturing lard oil and candles...
...Father-in-Law Webb befriended Brother-in-Law Leavitt when the President's sister's husband was arrested for liquor possession last year (TIME...
...covert hostility of Japan and other nations). Realistic, the Japanese attitude was to soft-soap everyone and let the Conference drag on for as long as the white men liked?months, years, or an even longer period which seemed to be envisioned by Japanese Delegate Tsuneo Matsudaira (the father-in-law of Japan's Crown Prince) in these words: "When all nations sincerely desire to become good and trusted friends, when all nations are prepared to discharge faithfully their domestic and international responsibilities, when all nations feel that they can work out their own destinies with peace of mind, then...
Conference Doings. Handsome, spade-bearded Dino Grandi drew loudest cheers. The Crown Prince of Japan's father-in-law drew loudest hisses...