Word: nephew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week, began loading up for its regular Sāo Paulo run. Up the steps walked the passengers: Cuban Minister to Brazil Alfonso Hernández Catá, Rockefeller Foundation's yellow-fever researcher Dr. Evandro Chagas, Norwegian Consul Alexander Stabell Grieg, Sebastiāo Leme Salles, nephew of Rio's Cardinal Archbishop, eleven lesser wigs. Heading into the wind, the VASP airliner roared across the field, lifted easily into a climbing turn...
...Tonopah, Nev., Mrs. Emery Garrett found a coyote prowling among her turkeys, yelled "Shoo!" It did - through a window of her house into the bathtub, where Mrs. Garrett's nephew, Harry Lewis, shot the baffled creature dead...
...Among them are barnstormers, crop-dusters, stunt fliers, sportsmen. Youngest is Gregory ("Gus") Daymond, 19, of California, who used to fly an ice-cream king around South America. Oldest is Paul Joseph Haaren, 48, also of California, a movie flier. Most celebrated Eagle is Colonel Sweeney's nephew, wavy-haired Robert ("Bob") Sweeney, who won the British amateur golf championship in 1937 and lately squired Barbara Hutton Haugwitz-Reventlow. Active commander is Squadron Leader William Erwin Gibson Taylor, 35, formerly of the 5th Fighting Squadron, U. S. Naval Air Corps (aboard the carrier Lexington). He joined Britain...
From Tunbridge Wells, England, wrote F. D. Newman, 68, great-nephew of England's late, great Catholic Convert John Henry Cardinal Newman, to Manhattan's American Committee for Defense of British Homes, asking for: "a gun or some standard but powerful automatic or machine gun, which one man can handle in defense of his home. I can shoot from the hip with a revolver in each hand at once...
...fuss. Most every family in our [Fentress] county has had one volunteer. . . ." Then taken by a grinning Army sergeant to Fort McPherson, Ga., Private Elbert Lee Hull was sworn into the Army, explained he had talked things over with Grandfather Louis Hull, but not with Grandfather Louis' distinguished nephew, U. S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull. "I didn't think it right to ask too much of Cousin Cordell, so I just signed up without . . . any help from the judge...