Word: nephew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Walsh and Sweezy, like Unionist Davis, were being fired. Harvard hastened to issue a statement explaining that the "cases present no unusual features; decisions . . . have been made solely on grounds of teaching capacity and scholarly ability." Skeptical friends of Instructors Walsh and Sweezy thought differently. Walsh, a baldish, handsome nephew of Montana's late Senator Thomas J., has been a member of Harvard's economics department since 1929, when he graduated from Beloit College in Wisconsin. Gaunt young Instructor Sweezy, a Harvardman of the Class of 1929 and onetime president of the Daily Crimson, entered the economics department...
...Tientsin and Correspondent A. T. Steele of the New York Times, visiting Yin's capital of Tungchow, found a Yin subordinate, plump and beaming. Chung Tun-fu, in a state of garrulity almost unheard of among Chinese politicos of any complexion. Plump Chung professes to be a great-nephew of Manchukuo's Premier General Chang Ching-hui. Blabbed...
...Count Jean de Chambrun, nephew of the wounded Count Charles de Chambrun and cousin of Count Rene de Chambrun (see above), ran down and killed one Henri Lorfelin & wife, parents of 19 children, at Dieppe, France...
...side of Winston Churchill's 18-year-old Nephew Esmond Romilly, fighting with the Spanish Loyalists since last December, sped the Hon. Jessica Lucy Freeman-Mitford, 19, beauteous fifth daughter of Baron Redesdale. When fuming Lord Redesdale moved to have Daughter Jessica made a ward in chancery so that it would have been a crime for any Englishman to marry her without the consent of the High Court, Esmond and Jessica coolly announced that that was all right with them, "as what is marriage but a mere convention?" A British consular official was sent after the couple, instructed...
Well qualified for his job is 53-year-old Front Man Morgan. He has an Oxford accent, a pretty wife, entree to both the House of Morgan and the White House, the former because he is J. P. Morgan's nephew, the latter because his deceased first wife was Mrs. Roosevelt's aunt and because he was Democratic treasurer in the last campaign. An investment banker by trade, Mr. Morgan went to Washington in 1933 as deputy governor of the Farm Credit Administration, met & married 23-year-old Sarah Jackson Coonley whose father was secretary of the Democratic...