Word: son-in-law
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...Parkman had disappeared a week before. A man known for his punctuality as well as for his businesslike ways, he had been missed when he did not come home for lunch on the afternoon of November 23. His son-in-law, Robert Gould Shaw, a leading merchant, offered a $3000 reward for his safe return, and by Saturday afternoon had placed advertisements in all the papers and had circulated 28,000 handbills...
This basic decision was reached two years ago, when Winston Churchill was Prime Minister and Harold Macmillan was his Minister of Defense. When Macmillan himself became Prime Minister last January, he gave the job of carrying out the decision to Duncan Sandys (Churchill's son-in-law, though he and Diana recently separated). The trouble was that Britain's missiles program, like its aircraft design, was lagging badly. Ten weeks ago, Sandys (pronounced Sands) took hat in hand, went off to Washington to ask for U.S. missiles. His success was signed and sealed at Bermuda...
...died, he planted the Lubavitcher movement deep in the U.S. He organized "Torah Missions," and set up Lubavitcher Bible classes, founded a publishing house to turn out textbooks in English and Hebrew, dispatched missionaries all over the world. After his death in 1949, he was succeeded by his son-in-law, Menachem Mendel, who, like all Rebbes, added Schneerson to his name in honor of Founder Shneur Zalman...
Broker Francis I. du Pont & Co., where Silberstein's son-in-law, Peter M. Cats, is a customers' man. For one batch of 50,000 shares, Silberstein contracted to pay $52.75 when the market price was $45, thus netting his unidentified sellers $387,500. He has so far paid the Swiss bank $2,600,000, still owes $10,487,500, due next June and July...
...Smallholders Party, which took 57% of the popular vote in the 1945 free elections but was later squeezed out of existence by the Communists. As first President of the Republic, aging (66) Zoltan Tildy's record was undistinguished, and he had resigned in 1948 when his son-in-law was charged with spying (and later executed...