Word: father-in-law
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What Publisher Martin intends to do with the Inquirer is still a secret between him and his maker, Father-in-Law Curtis. Shrewdest journalistic surmise is that he bought it primarily to keep it out of rival hands...
...when Death came to Edward William Bok (TIME, Jan. 20), it might have been unseemly for a Bok Medal to go to his father-in-law...
...last week the highest Bok Award, the big gold medal "For Distinguished Contemporary Service to Advertising," went to the father-in-law who should have had it years ago, Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, of the Saturday Evening Post, et al, "because of his strict adherence ... to high standards of reliability in advertising...
Soon the prospective fathers-in-law stood face to face. "I have come to say," said Father-in-Law Hamaguchi, "that I hope the expenses of the wedding proper will not exceed 50 yen [$25], and that not more than five yen [$2.50] per wedding guest will be spent on refreshments. I shall instruct my son to spend not more than 250 yen [$125] on the wedding trip...
...when Bryan, the silver-tongued prophet of Free Silver, ran against Hanna's man McKinley, he was hardly known outside Ohio's borders. He worked at his father's grocery and shipping business until he had made a fortune out of it; married Charlotte Augusta Rhodes, daughter of Coal-and-Iron-King Daniel Rhodes, lost his fortune and went into partnership with his father-in-law. Soon Rhodes & Co. became M. A. Hanna & Co. Long before he showed his whole political hand Hanna began to take an interest in politics. He attended the Republican conventions...