Word: nephew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...idealistic Scientist J. S. Haldane, nephew of the encyclopedic-minded Viscount Haldane who became Britain's Lord Chancellor, John B. S. Haldane was born 46 years ago in Scotland. Growing up in an atmosphere of intellectual curiosity and freedom, he did not find Einstein unintelligible or Freud shocking. He was educated at Eton and Oxford, served in France and Mesopotamia during the War, was twice wounded, became a captain. He said he enjoyed shooting Germans. Nowadays he is known as an authority on poison gas, is an Air Raid Precautions expert...
...from way back, but he can tell fascism from fooling. He has put off marrying so long that when he finally falls in love, it is with a girl who might be his daughter; he delays proposing to her so long that she is wooed and married by his nephew before he has even heaved a deep sigh. But the minute Mr. Wheaton's poisoned sugarplum comes along, Uncle Tim gets his back up. He succeeds in keeping it away from the hungry village, and if he isn't happy in the end-well, a slowpoke...
Lawyer Stanfield appealed to Federal District Judge Wayne G. Borah (the Idaho Senator's nephew), who ruled against Joe; then to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. Here Judge Joseph C. Hutcheson Jr. found that there was nothing in the Labor Department's record against Joe to warrant deporting him. Judge Hutcheson spoke of "the tyranny of labels over certain types of minds" and twitted the prosecution (inferentially, Madam Secretary Perkins herself) for "a kind of Pecksniffian righteousness, savoring strongly of hypocrisy and party bigotry...
...could gaze upon a portrait of the longtime protectress of his health, St. Therese of Lisieux, gathered a hushed assemblage: lean, austere Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli, Papal Secretary of State, Camillo Cardinal Caccia-Dominioni, the Pope's protege and master of ceremonies, Count Franco Ratti, the Pope's nephew, Governor Camillo Serafini of Vatican City. The Pope's regular doctor, Dr. Aminta Milani, himself down with a high fever, left his sickbed to administer to the Pontiff a last, desperate injection of adrenalin...
Died. Jesse Root Grant, 80, nephew of President Ulysses S. Grant; of exposure and starvation; in Chicago...