Word: nephew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Niebuhr, presently lecturer on religion at Vassar College, will assume his new post this summer. He is the son of H. Richard Niebuhr, professor at the Yale Divinity School, and nephew of Reinhold Niebuhr, professor at the Union Theological Seminary, two leading religious philosophers...
...family seat, a fine colonial residence in Coro, the oldest two-story house in the hemisphere. Snowy-haired patriarch of the family is Pedro Manuel Arcaya, onetime minister to Washington, who at 82 still works in his famed private library (150,000 volumes in ten languages). His sons and nephews are lawyers or professional men, trained in the universities of Spain, Venezuela and the U.S.; his daughters and niece are society figures. One of the lawyers, nephew Ignacio, is also a politician, president (i.e., national chairman) of the middle-road Democratic Republican Union (U.R.D.)-a fact that has spelled...
...Rector Laín Entralgo was reported ousted. Seven student ringleaders were reportedly exiled to places 200 miles from Madrid. The names of the youths, all respectfully referred to by the title of Don, showed them to include the son of one of the founders of the Falange, the nephew of the Falange's third in command, and the son of one of Franco's closest personal friends...
...Santa Claus, Robin Hood, a Chinese warlord and the late John Barrymore. Over 70, Skeffington decides to run for re-election as mayor of the nameless big city, where the candidates usually share three qualifications ("All were Democrats, all were Irish, all were Catholics"). The old campaigner invites his nephew Adam to tag along and get acquainted with politics. It is through Adam's eyes that one sees the great old pro and his enemies go into action...
...shares) for the stock of Canadian Locomotive Co., which Fairbanks, Morse controls. Since Fairbanks, Morse book value is $45.90 v. $12.84 for Canadian Locomotive, Morse said that "the exchange will be improvident." President Robert H. Morse Jr. was "stunned and shocked" at Uncle Charles's decision. Said nephew Robert: "I regret that my uncle has seen fit to sell his stock to a well-known financial adventurer. However, the other 9 directors deemed it in the best interests of stockholders to make the exchange. Canadian Locomotive earnings in 1955 were more than double those of Fairbanks, Morse...