Word: nephew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married, Marie Jose ("Josette") Laval, 23, daughter of France's peasant-born Premier Pierre Laval; and Count Rene Aldebert Pineto de Chambrun, 28, nephew of the late great Nicholas Longworth, longtime Speaker of the U. S. House of Representatives; in Paris...
...caps, and fancy afghans. He grew up, married a girl who liked to knit, adopted the profession of male nurse, kept on knitting. Be fore the War he had a New Hampshire sheep farm, which kept him well supplied with wool. During the War, he knitted perpetually, flooding a nephew at the front with products for distribution. Now he is owner of a Back Bay rooming house and uses the proceeds from his knitting to help support Mrs. Cann who has become an invalid. Last week, Knitter Cann, whose strokes are old-fashioned and who can do only a plain...
Among the properties of the New York Times is the Chattanooga (Tenn.) Times, publishing springboard of the late Adolph Ochs, now published by Ochs' Nephew Julius Ochs Adler. Last week Nephew Adler plucked Julian Harris, 61, from the Constitution, made him executive editor of the Chattanooga Times, a lively paper in a lively newspaper country. In subordinate jobs Harris' bitter temper and sarcasm have often hurt him but on the Chattanooga Times Harris was told that he would be Boss...
Also a lawyer is José Laval's fiancé, almost forgotten last week in the dither over her dowry. He, aristocratic young Count René de Chambrun, is a nephew of the late, great Nicholas Longworth, a descendant of the Marquis de Lafayette...
...Patton's dismay when his friend Eugene Sellers took the stand to testify that the box he saw Mr. Patton carrying away from the Carpenters' did not seem like a cigar box to him. It was too small and light. Furthermore, Representative Patton's nephew, Norris Shook, had declared: "Hell, no, that wasn't cigars." And several days later Representative Patton told Friend Sellers: "Well, I bought one of those baby bonds." Afterward, Nephew Shook had hinted: "Uncle bought a bond and it wasn...