Word: nephew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...barer brownskin and high yaller gals, more chest-thumping against race discrimination. The Defender staff had to be harshly shaken up. The brother-in-law, bounced at last, sued the now-ailing Abbott for $85,000. Mrs. Abbott No. 1 won an expensive divorce suit. Abbott put his favorite nephew in charge of the paper. The Defender went from bad to worse. Publisher Abbott died. Mrs. Abbott No. 2 stepped in. The nephew was fired. Thereupon he and his aunt started digging in the closet for a skeleton...
Born. To Jessica Lucy ("Decca") Freeman-Mitford Romilly, 23, sister of Hitler Friend Unity Valkyrie Freeman-Mitford, and fifth of Lord Redesdale's six beauteous daughters; and Esmond Marcus David Romilly, 22, nephew of Winston Churchill's wife, onetime warrior for Loyalist Spain, now training with the Royal Canadian Air Force; a daughter, their first child; in Washington...
...Czecho-Slovakia, one-half the lignite mines, the Vitkovice iron & steel works (once owned jointly by the Rothschilds and the Gutmanns of Vienna). >On the Board of Rumania's largest iron & steel works (Reshitza) Göring put his nephew, Albert Göring, took over the selling outlets of Skoda in Rumania.* > In Norway, the Dunderland iron-ore mines (subsidiary of an English company, capitalized...
...Rome, a nephew of the late Carlo Lorenzini, who wrote Pinocchio, asked the Ministry for Popular Culture to sue Walt Disney for libel. Charge: Disney's film so distorted the character of Pinocchio that "he easily could be mistaken for American...
...Another nephew (Allyn Joslyn) is an innocent dramatic critic engaged in a fine, sane courtship with the minister's daughter who lives next door. When she runs home for family prayers before going to the theatre with him, he reminds her that "if the prayer isn't too long I'd have time to lead you beside distilled waters." But that same evening he discovers the evidence of his aunts' latest charity in the window seat, awaiting burial. And that evening also marks the dreadful homecoming of a third nephew, an international killer, bringing with...