Word: nephew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...royal family came news that Lord Frederick Charles Edward Cambridge, cousin of King George VI and favorite nephew of Queen Mary, had also died in the Battle of Flanders as a captain in the elite Coldstream Guards, leaving his elder brother, the Marquess of Cambridge, without a male heir...
...Times in 1879, and merged it next year with the Cincinnati Star. When he died in 1929, he left the Times-Star to his family. To each of his daughters, Mrs. Anna Louise Taft Semple and Mrs. Jane Taft Ingalls, went 40% of the stock. Hulbert Taft, his nephew, got 10%. Nephews Bob Taft, now candidate for President, and Charles Phelps Taft, a Cincinnati city councilman, each inherited...
...whose father recently visited the U. S. as head of the Nazi Red Cross. When Sweden and Germany were expelling each other's nationals in 1936, Gustaf Adolf Jr. trotted off to Berlin to smooth things over with the Nazis. Moreover, in 1937, the Crown Prince's nephew, Prince Carl Jr., married Countess Elsa von Rosen, niece of Göring's friend Eric. Prince Carl was referred to in the German press at that time as a pro-Nazi member of the Swedish Royal Family...
...Rhodes, who had been sent to the iron-ore port of Narvik, witnessed the German landing, then got across the Swedish border to report it from Abisko, 40 miles away. Not so lucky was Giles Romilly, correspondent for the London Daily Express, also in Narvik. A British subject, nephew by marriage of Britain's First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill, Correspondent Romilly was clapped under arrest, kept prisoner in the Hotel Royal, while the Nazi press made fun of him in Germany...
...violence. Just before rehearsals, an Indian leopard killed the only performing snow leopard in captivity. He also cut up Trainer Alfred Court's face, and another cat got loose and scared the daylights out of a reporter. On top of all this, John Ringling North, the Founders' nephew and circus' boss, announced his engagement to beauteous French Cinemactress Germaine Aussey...