Word: father-in-law
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...great London Times. Last week's pamphlet exhibits an ignorance of the U. S. press, or a wilful inaccuracy, unworthy of the Times's amiable editor Geoffrey Dawson, who has visited in the U. S. and who maintains in Washington a correspondent, Wilmot Lewis, whose father-in-law is none other than Col. Frank Brett Noyes, president of the great Associated Press...
...Duke of York, still waiting (together with telephone operators, pressmen, doctors and Home Secretary John Robert Clynes) at Glamis Castle for the birth of a possible son and heir (TIME, Aug. 11), played golf with his father-in-law, the Earl of Strathmore...
...baby which tabloidom hopes and prays is soon going to be born to the Charles Augustus Lindberghs. Evidence of the depth of this yearning was furnished last week by the New York Daily News. When Col. Lindbergh landed at Newark Airport with Dwight Whitney Morrow, that famed father-in-law who wants to be nominated for the Senate by New Jersey's Republicans beckoned to him for political-photographic purposes a small boy from the welcoming throng. After news-camera men had photographed Famed Colonel, Genial Candidate and Delighted Child, they asked the small boy his name, reported...
...Arthur Hays Sulzberger, vice president of the Times, accepted the medal from Dr. M. Walter Williams, the school's dean who was lately elevated to be president of the university (TIME, April 14). Choosing to view the award as in part a personal bestowal upon his father-in-law, Publisher Adolph Simon Ochs, Mr. Sulzberger launched into a glowing recital of the Ochs ideals, prowess, personality. To Mr. Sulzberger his chief is "the perfect newspaperman." "He is simple and direct, and able to strip the most difficult problem of its complexities and put his finger on the underlying...
...London Conference prepared to end with a quick curtain last week, the Naval Treaty was rushed onto paper by a drafting committee, and who should sit for the U. S. as No. 1 draftsman but the father-in-law of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, small-statured, mighty-minded Dwight Whitney Morrow. This was but just. For although the main U. S. legal prop of the conference maypole has been Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson, much of the strenuous work of dancing round and round for eleven weeks, much of the weaving in and out of diplomatic ribbons to make...