Word: nephew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...deferments for relatives. Delaware's New Dealer Tunnell got his 26-year-old son Robert on the deferred list because he was needed in the management of "eight or nine" of his father's farms. Delaware's James H. Hughes had got his 33-year-old nephew, Randolph Hughes, deferred because the Senator needs him for his secretary...
Antoni Brooke promptly went to Rangoon, married a pretty young commoner, Kathleen Hudden. Back in Sarawak, Sir Charles showed his displeasure by removing Antoni as Tuan Muda. Said he tersely: "It appears to us that our nephew is not yet fitted for the exercise of the responsibilities of this high office." Then Sir Charles retired into solitude to think things over...
...character of Prince Paul of Yugoslavia has been a subject of controversy for years. His friends said he was a patriot, ambitious only to turn a united kingdom over to his nephew at the end of his regency. These people said his appeasement of Yugoslavia's Croat minority was directed toward that end. His enemies said he was a weakling, prodded by his wife, Princess Olga of Greece (whose sister is Britain's Duchess of Kent), into immense ambitions, even the ambition to rule all the Slavs, including the Russians. These people said Hitler played on Prince Paul...
...Plymouth town, the trigger-tongued Lady from Virginia had spent the day showing King George and Queen Elizabeth around the city. She sat in the dining room of her house on the Hoe with Australia's Prime Minister Robert Gordon Menzies, with her 17-year-old dock-working nephew, James Brand (son of the distinguished banker Robert Henry Brand, who was last week in the U. S. buying food for Britain), and with an American correspondent. It was 8:30 p.m. Nancy Astor was tired, but she kept up a patter of light talk...
Boss of Reynolds Metals is chunky, thin-haired, alert Richard Samuel Reynolds, nephew of the founder of R. J Reynolds Tobacco Co. He quit the tobacco business in 1912, puttered around for seven years before starting a company to make cigaret foil. Effervescent Richard Reynolds likes to compose poetry while shaving, is now writing a book "to keep sane." Often he lets his enthusiasm overtake his business acumen, once bought the white elephant Woolworth estate on Long Island. But Reynolds Metals blossomed. He revolutionized the packaging business, won prizes with Canada Dry and Hoffman Beverage labels, made Reynolds Metals tops...