Word: father-in-law
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Died. Eleanor Clay Ford, 80, one of the world's richest women (estimated fortune: between $100 million and $200 million); widow of Edsel Ford and mother of Henry Ford II; in Detroit. After her husband's death in 1943, Mrs. Ford forced her father-in-law, Ford Motor Co. Founder Henry Ford, to appoint her eldest son (then only 28) as the firm's new president. At the time, she controlled 54% of the company's voting stock and threatened to sell her shares on the open market if young Henry...
...fortune, or misfortune, to marry the daughter of Boston's most successful dealer in tea, Richard Clarke, and it was Clarke's tea that the Sons of Liberty threw into Boston Harbor. Copley tried unsuccessfully to mediate the dispute between the Patriots and his Tory father-in-law. But he was less concerned with politics than with achieving a greater reputation, which he did not think he could do in Boston. As he lamented in a letter to his half brother: "A taste of painting is too much wanting ... and was it not for preserving the resemblance...
...front page. Nobody would comment. Editors and reporters pontificated and prevaricated. I was prepared for some serious wallowing: visions of Nixon entering the terminal throes of his own hysteria, Pat snitching bourbon from the liquor cabinet, Kissinger taping all his phone calls, Eddie Cox worrying that his father-in-law might kill himself rather than resign...
Nixon's family was deeply alarmed by his visible deterioration. David Eisenhower was afraid that his father-in-law might go mad. He knew how tense and brittle the President was, and feared that his reason could not survive the harsh and total withdrawal of the public's favor...
...WXYZ in Detroit during the 1930s, Jewell produced, wrote and directed both the early Lone Ranger series and The Green Hornet. Kee-Mo-Sah-Bee, Tonto's greeting to the masked Ranger, derived from the name of a boys' camp owned by Jewell's father-in-law. Jewell's later credits include The Black Ace and Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy, a long-running saga that exhorted teen-agers to eat Wheaties...