Word: nephew
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...firms and individuals. We now have a $3,000,000 building here in Washington. My salary is $20,000 yearly. Last September my board of directors decided to curtail my authority, to subordinate me to an Executive Council. I objected. Last week I resigned. I am a nephew of the late President Emeritus Charles W. Eliot of Harvard and have been suggested as a possible successor there to President Abbott Lawrence Lowell. I am not being considered for that post...
...wife is Aunt Martha, whose capable hands are so smoothly white that her little nephew sees how they make the rest of her seem dark; he thinks she lights the candles with her fingertips...
...Secretary of Labor and now Democratic candidate for the Senate. Senator Norris was not so much for Mr. Wilson, able Wilson though he is, as against Congressman William S. Vare, winner in the great Republican slush-fund primary of last May. Piqued, Republican Manager William L. Mellon, nephew of the Secretary of the Treasury, called upon Senator Norris to go back home, to leave Keystoners to attend to their own business. Democrats deemed this a very weak retort from such an able man as Mr. Mellon to such a keen debater as Senator Norris, on such a vital subject...
Born. To Princess Mafalda, 23, second daughter of King Vittorio Emanuele of Italy and wife of Prince Philip of Hesse, nephew of ex-Kaiser Wilhelm; a son, at Racconigi, Italy...
...disastrous dual stupidities of embracing the Islamic faith and the Germano-Turkish cause. Vexed, a majority of the feudal chieftains of Abyssinia, stout Christians according to their somewhat pagan lights, supported a successful pro-Christian, pro-Ally revolution. Prince Taffari, an able statesman but by lineage a mere great nephew of the revered late Emperor Menelik, was prudently installed as Regent for the Empress Zanditu, a daughter of the Emperor Menelik, and proclaimed heir to the Throne by the revolutionary feudal lords...