Word: grandnephew
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Last week he did it. (Some diehard unionists led by Sam Hendy, grandnephew of company founder Joshua Hendy, still held out.) Now McCone could talk about Hendy's future...
...Northwest lumber empire (Weyerhaeuser Timber Co.), who became its president, expanded it geographically and financially, modernized its sales tactics, became one of the nation's wealthiest men; of pneumonia; in St. Paul. In 1935 the comparatively unpublicized Weyerhaeuser name became front-page news when F. E.'s grandnephew George was kidnapped and ransomed...
Married. Margaret Rutherford, 53, the late Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt's daughter who became ballerina, cultist (Oom the Omnipotent), husband collector; and Prince Charles Michael Joachim Napoleon Murat, 53, great-grandnephew of Napoleon Bonaparte; she for the fifth time (once before to Murat), he for the second (she was also his first); in Manhattan...
Fiorello H. LaGuardia, Manhattan's big-mouthed Mayor, got a glimpse of an all-but-spitting-image grandnephew, Richard Denes, when Correspondent Kathryn Cravens returned from Germany with a photograph (see cut). She found Richard and the Mayor's sister, Gemma LaGuardia Gluck, in Berlin...
Tongue Trouble. Able Oliver Lyttelton, a man of great know-how with facts, had again got himself in trouble because of words. A grandnephew of William Gladstone, son of a Cabinet Minister, he was born to the salons of British power. Tall, heavy-mustached, with a penchant for double-breasted waistcoats, he has a personal charm that smooths all paths for him. His business abilities were established beyond cavil by his spectacular rise in the metals industry, wherein he first became manager of the giant British Metal Corp. and then fathered a world tin cartel...