Word: son-in-law
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...law, Pianist Jose Iturbi, who used to fight him for the children's custody. (Mrs. Hero committed suicide last year.) Pianist Iturbi, in far-off Paris at the moment, had nothing to say to the press. Sighed his manager: "Mr. Iturbi is always haunted by his son-in-law's stories...
...daughter (already engaged to a dull, career-minded architect) and a colonel who comes home from war to find the professor's family occupying his apartment. The amusingly meddlesome professor (played with gusto by Joseph Buloff) keeps the architect-whom he doesn't want for a son-in-law - hopelessly buried in blueprints so that the colonel can have a clear field with the girl...
...much people as points of view. There is wily Industrialist Benckendorff (Reinhold Schunzel), who has played ball with the Nazis and now wants the Americans to let his closed machine-tool factory go full blast; there is his stiff-necked Prussian sister (Blanche Yurka), his still violently Nazi son-in-law (Tonio Selwart). There is Theodore Bruce (Walter Greaza), a visiting Chicago tycoon who, because business is business, would give Benckendorff cartel blanche; there are various indifferent, homesick American soldiers and officers; and there is Lieut. Colonel Woodruff (Thomas Beck), whose tough occupation job is to stabilize and denazify...
When he learns that the executives in Benckendorff's factory are Nazis, he refuses to let it reopen. Benckendorff now gets Bruce to use pull, but Woodruff overrides him. Finally, Benckendorff has his son-in-law start a riot in the town, hoping it will bring about Woodruff's removal. But Woodruff quashes it and manages to keep the upper hand...
...Scott Trust. In 1907, Scott decided to pay himself a modest salary, turn any other monies back into the paper, and resolved to draw no more dividends from it. In 1917, he made it impossible that anybody else ever should: he divided the ordinary shares among his sons and son-in-law, to hold impersonally for the good of the paper. In 1936, J. R. Scott, the sole survivor, divested himself of the trusteeship and formed a trust, whose duty was and is to turn any dividends back into the development of the paper. The trustees draw no salary...