Word: nephew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...political sphere of influence. For security reasons the U.S. made friends with the modern caciques, granted them big loans, including Lend-Lease arms. Inflation swelled like a tumor. But Lend-Lease generosity made Franklin Roosevelt so popular with the dictators that, when Wendell Willkie ran against him, a nephew of Carias Andino asked bewilderedly: "Why doesn't Roosevelt have him shot...
...best jobs in U.S. reporting: he was made chief foreign correspondent of the New York Times. To Teach this eminence in ten brief years he had successfully overcome the handicaps of youth, competition from the ablest foreign staff possessed by any single U.S. newspaper and, perhaps, his relationship (nephew) to Times Publisher Arthur Hays Sulzberger...
...February 1943, when Radovich was a captain in the Air Forces, he was sent to Mitchel Field to organize a unit for the China-Burma-India air war. There he became acquainted with two brothers, Samuel and Elias Bayer and their nephew Jerome Usdan, thread manufacturers of New York. Samuel Bayer's son Martin, 22, and Usdan's brother Morris, 21, were both privates at Mitchel Field...
Died. Reginald Langhorne (Pete) Brooks, 42, New York socialite, flying enthusiast, nephew of British M.P. Lady Nancy Astor; in his Miami Shores, Fla. home, presumably by suicide. In 1933 he married Aline Rhonie Bamberger, set off on a 17,000 mile aerial honeymoon flying his own plane, his bride another "because both liked to do the piloting." They were divorced...
...other Germans were led before Walitschek: 62-year-old Wilhelm Siemens and his nephew, both accused of stealing $2 worth of coal which the U.S. Army had seized. According to the law laid down by General Dwight Eisenhower, the penalty for such a crime may be death. Captain Walitschek referred the case to a higher court...