Word: grandson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...royalists were busy too. From London, Spain's ex-Queen Victoria Eugenie had flown to Switzerland for talks with her son, the Pretender Don Juan, great-grandson of England's Queen Victoria. Monarchists believed that the Queen had first talked with Winston Churchill...
Inside police lines at the train platform, Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson led Cabinet members aboard Franklin Roosevelt's car. The rain came down harder. The big, black automobile with bulletproof windows moved up beside the train, with the President's grandson, five-year-old Johnnie Boettiger, wriggling excitedly beside the driver...
Down to Moscow's rainswept airport dashed the great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandson of the Duke of Marlborough-Winston Churchill. With him dashed the cobbler's son from Tiflis. Never before had Joseph Stalin made such a good-will gesture to any visiting foreign statesman. Stalin was all smiles. He had been ever since his talks with Churchill began in the Kremlin ten days...
...Stalingrad, became chairman of the Officers' League. Other charter members: Wilhelm Pieck, 68, participant with Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht in the unsuccessful Communist attempt to overthrow the Weimar Republic, ex-Reichstag deputy, wheelhorse of the pre-Hitler German Communist Party; Lieut. Count Heinrich von Einsiedel, great-grandson of Bismarck, ex-Luftwaffe pilot, and a pro-Russian proselytizer among his fellow officers...
...performance by Walter Pidgeon, the lifelong romance of wise Susie and her empire-building Major is a disarming and refreshing story-far more successful than the double exposure which runs alongside it. This somewhat confusing countermelody concerns Grandmother Susie, the lone ruler of her late husband's empire; Grandson Amory, a Wall Streeter who has embezzled $31 million; and the crummiest set of moneygrubbing relatives since The Little Foxes. In a practical demonstration of her old Major's rugged sense of justice, Susie pays back the $31 million, leaving herself broke and sending the heirs apparent scuttling uselessly...