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...fact that it meant postponing his recommendation for new taxes, which Congress was impatiently awaiting in order to perform its election-year duty of going home as quickly as possible. In favor of it was the fact that Secretary Morgenthau was absent attending the funeral of his mother-in-law, and the President's deep desire to be present in Cambridge when Harvard's Fly Club initiated his youngest son, John...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Fun With Flies | 3/2/1936 | See Source »

...were making business trips. Young Charles Altschul, nephew of New York's Governor Herbert H. Lehman, amused himself by experimenting with his new candid camera. Mrs. Samuel Horovitz of Boston, who had never flown before, was nervous at first, but soon relaxed, sat quietly talking to her mother-in-law, watching her curly-haired son play in the aisle. To other passengers she said: "Isn't he happy! He's 5 years old today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Into Arkansas Loblolly | 1/27/1936 | See Source »

Parry, visiting his mother-in-law in Los Angeles, was unpacking a suitcase in his hotel bedroom when a revolver mixed in with his clothing went off, mortally wounding...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PARRY, GREEK AND LATIN PROFESSOR, KILLED YESTERDAY | 12/4/1935 | See Source »

...medicine" of the 17th century, has been crested to attract public attention to the coming production of Moliere's "Mousieur to Poureesugnae" by the French Club. In a manner characteristic of Meliere, the "medicine" is made the butt of the same satire which is attached to a modern mother-in-law...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRENCH CLUB'S DOCTOR FOUND HAUNTING CITY | 12/2/1935 | See Source »

...Manuel once expressed his own Nationalist philosophy (1921) as follows: "We [Filipinos] are like, let us say, a young married couple starting out in life. A mother-in-law is helping run their establishment. She may be a perfectly admirable woman, kind, generous, affectionate, wise and the best cook on earth, but the young household does not want her. . . . A block down the street, or across the river, the household thinks of her with profound affection and regard . . . but it does not want her forever stirring the pot and dominating the bill of fare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PHILIPPINES: Fireworks & Fear | 11/25/1935 | See Source »

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