Word: son-in-law
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Capitalizing on the Republican split is Lawyer George L. Arnold, a breezy young (32) newcomer to the area, who voted in another Los Angeles congressional district in 1950. A son of Thurman Arnold (Franklin Roosevelt's trustbusting Assistant U.S. Attorney General from 1938 to '43) and a son-in-law of Columnist Drew Pearson (who has used his nationally syndicated column to discuss Arnold's candidacy), Democrat Arnold has all of his party's organization support. There is another Democrat, named Irving Markheim, in the race, but he is a chronic candidate, has little vote-pulling...
...patch of fine green lawn. Its wide porch is equipped with a glider and wicker chairs; red geraniums grow in low flower boxes on the railings. Last week, in this unremarkable survival of the parlor era, 75-year-old Mrs. Doud was putting up her daughter and son-in-law, who had come all the way from Washington, D.C. to spend their summer vacation with...
...Doud's son-in-law was not in a position to forget his job completely but he rapidly settled into a routine which successfully combined work and relaxation. Up every morning at 6:30, Ike Eisenhower shaved himself with a safety razor and danced noisily under a shower, first hot, then cold. Once dressed he headed downstairs to the large, old-fashioned dining room, whistling a tune as he went. His current favorite: Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darlin', from the movie High Noon...
...Chris married Mary Caroline Pratt, daughter of a straitlaced, enormously wealthy Standard Oil family, which looked askance at the peripatetic young son-in-law and his artistic family. Not long after the wedding, Chris left his bride and went to Switzerland with a special diplomatic mission to draw up a prisoner-of-war agreement. When the armistice was signed he made a quick reconnaissance of prison camps in Germany, was appalled to find red armbands and symptoms of Communism everywhere. Back in Switzerland he wired a friend from Berlin to come and meet him. "What...
...contained the body of Lincoln Williams, handsome Negro bartender of the Last Chance Saloon, punctured by two .45 slugs fired at close range. The lady in the car-and she obviously was a lady-was Mrs. Treadway, the richest woman in town. Captain Sheffield, respectable broker and her son-in-law, sat beside...