Word: kinsman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their Presidents' bad habit of trying to continue in power after their terms have expired. When the U. S. Marines left Nicaragua in 1933, they left behind them an idea of a cure for continuismo: a constitution that forbade a President to be succeeded by a kinsman; and a potent, nonParty, Marine-trained National Guard headed by General Anastasio Somoza, whose wife is President Juan Bautista Sacasa's niece...
...dead volcano with his Guard of Honor, pushed loyal National Guardsmen to Fort Acosasco in Leon. Next day the National Guard assaulted the Presidential Palace in force, were repulsed with two dead, 16 wounded. Meanwhile National Guard artillery pounded away at Fort Acosasco, commanded by the President's kinsman, Major Ramon Sacasa...
There is much today that undoubtedly appears in reverse to the doughty General, and your reversal of the name of his gallant kinsman must but add to his confusion...
...Soviet frontier and killed several Red Army guards, the Soviet Press jittered anew against England. Russians read bug-eyed that the Greek Republic has been friendly to Dictator Mussolini, that last week's coup to restore George II is a cunning move by the Government of his kinsman George V to alienate Greek friendship from Italy...
...Actor Harrington seems to interpret Marco not so much as a droll picaroon but as a bumbling slob. But as Mike, Actor Sweeney is a soft-spoken Runyon killer of the first order. If A Slight Case of Murder outlasts Three Men on a Horse, its aging kinsman in the theatre next door, it will be due largely to Mr. Sweeney...