Word: grandchildren
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...amused to see that Edward L. Doheny's five grandchildren owned a company called Los Nietos, which, you explained, means "the relatives" [TIME, Oct. 31]. Nietos means exactly what Doheny apparently intended for it to mean: "grandchildren." The Spanish word for "relatives" is parientes-which looks like "parents," but the Spanish word for parents is padres. In Spanish, as in many other things, you can't depend on appearances . . . Sometimes the results are appalling. Think of the American girl who wanted to say in Spanish that she was embarrassed, for example, and used the word embarazada, which means...
...Clara Ford is executrix of the estate, which holds 95,321 shares (55.2% of the voting stock) for her grandchildren, who will eventually divide it. On these holdings, the estate got $428,944. In addition, dividends of $1,287,445 went to the estate on the 286,099 shares of non-voting stock left to the taxexempt, non-profit Ford Foundation...
...more than 300 grandchildren. Brigham Young had 56 children by a score of wives...
...years ago, the oil empire of Edward L. Doheny has been in & out of the headlines. Last week the holdings of Doheny, who was acquitted of bribe charges, made news again, perhaps for the last time. The Los Nietos (literally, the relatives) Co., owned by Doheny's five grandchildren,* sold the empire's last oil-producing property. The holdings have oil reserves in the U.S. and Canada of at least 48 million barrels. The buyer: Union Oil Co. of California. The price: $22.4 million plus 600,000 shares (current value: $15 million) of Union Oil stock...
...fair-minded observer must conclude that the Law School's step has been well taken. Joint Instruction--never must the word "co-education" sully that happy arrangement--now envelopes the entire Yard in its embrace. Only the Lamont Library remains the final bastion of monasticism, and perhaps our great-grandchildren may live to see even its barriers fall...