Word: father-in-law
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...Colorado (21), he wanted to go into the packing business with his father, but his fiancée brought him to New England instead, to work for her father, general manager and half-owner of what was then called the Uxbridge Worsted Co. Having married the boss's daughter, Walter took a job as apprentice mill hand on a one-year trial, liked it so well that he stayed on. He advanced to overseer, superintendent and assistant general manager; when his father-in-law died in 1932, 31-year-old Walter took over as operating boss...
...county court clerk-Imogene Stumbo Moore: In 153 years Floyd County has never elected a woman to any county office other than superintendent of schools. But in an advertisement, Mrs. Moore's father-in-law explains why he believes old prejudices should be scrapped in her case. "Some of you may feel that a woman should not run for office. Let me ask you: What office did you ever go in that the women weren't doing the biggest part of the work? . . . Imogene's husband, and my son, Clyde, is unable to work at the present...
Married. Eunice Mary Kennedy, 31, onetime welfare worker, daughter of Millionaire Joseph P. Kennedy, former (1938-40) U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, and sister of Massachusetts' Senator John F. Kennedy; and Robert Sargent Shriver Jr., 37, assistant general manager of his father-in-law's Merchandise Mart in Chicago; in a ceremony performed by Francis Cardinal Spellman; in Manhattan...
...everyone shared Ros's early confidence about the show. When she sang for her father-in-law, Nightclub Baritone Carl Bnsson, he held his temples and cried: "Are you going to bring that voice to Broadway?" Her gravelly, one-note vocalizing has been compared to the Ambrose Lightship calling to its mate. One critic thought that she sounded like "a raven with a throat condition," Ros (pronounced Roz) concedes that "I don't sing, I gargle...
Utilityman Black, the company's president since 1935 (and Shirley Temple's father-in-law), has had to keep up with the needs of California's 46 northern counties, where he sells power to half of the 5,500,000 people. He has also had to fight the threat of public power from the great Central Valley Project, which includes Shasta Dam. As part of his grand plan, Black has added ten new power plants, 200,000 miles of new transmission lines, 15,000 additional miles of distribution lines, and a 500-mile pipeline from Arizona that...