Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among Thirteen Roosevelts (p. 9, TIME, Jan. 4), appears according to your caption; the president's "widowed half-sister-in-law, Mrs. James R. Roosevelt...
Presumably, she must be the widow of a half-brother of either the President or Mrs. Roosevelt. I was under the impression that neither President Roosevelt nor his wife had a brother or sister, half or otherwise. I have noted frequent references to each being an only child...
...left after paying out $62,500 will be presented in court by former U. S. Senator George Wharton Pepper, a Philadelphia lawyer. Mr. Starr has already received some Garrett snuff money. His brother, the late Isaac Starr, was named residuary legatee by the will of Walter Garrett's sister Julia, whose adviser he had been. After settlements with her relatives in which he was represented by Senator Pepper, Isaac Starr received $6,800,000. When he died he left $50,000 to Brother Charles...
...sized monthly magazines on the U. S. newsstand, a newcomer was added this week in the shape of Commentator, with Radio's Commentator Lowell Thomas billed as editor-in-chief. Backer-in-chief was Charles Shipman Payson, the tall, rusty-haired Manhattan lawyer whom Jock Whitney's sister Joan married. His ambition to be a publisher appears to have been fired by the thought that the commentators of radio probably had facts & opinions to give the world which radio's timorous self-censorship bottles up before the microphone...
Biggest fuss last week in the commodity markets which the bounding indices reflect was in copper. Metal prices at home and abroad have been rising dramatically since early autumn. Fortnight ago copper's sister non-ferrous metal, tin, was placed on virtually a 1929 production basis by the tin cartel (TIME, Jan. 18). Last week, with export copper selling as high as 12.75? per lb., the international copper cartel called off production quotas to keep the price of the red metal from soaring higher and to discourage reopening of low-grade mines...