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...Labor, became Chairman of the Unemployment Assistance Board, provided for in the new Act. Presumably he would take care of any vexatious problems which might arise. It was safe to slip in as Minister of Labor the admirable young stockbroker who is Derby's son and Londonderry's son-in-law. Sir Henry Betterton, having made way for Major Stanley, was rewarded by His Majesty with the Barony of Rushcliffe...
Many a time Son-in-Law Charles John Boettiger (pronounced Bott-igger) had stood in that same office along with those same newshawks listening to Mr. Early's pronouncements. A strapping 6 ft. 2, he was just a plain high-school-educated newshawk covering police courts, bankers' conventions, scientific meetings for the Chicago Tribune until one day in 1930. Then another Tribune reporter, Jake Lingle, was shot in Chicago. Publisher McCormick of the Tribune put Boettiger on the case. He stuck to it, wrote the Tribune's stories on it, right up to the capture and conviction...
Since U. S. radio listeners also thought the crowd laughed, scant attention was paid when Il Duce's son-in-law and press chief Excellency Count Ciano protested: "If Americans heard Mussolini on the radio they heard no laughter, much less 'gales of laughter.' When the Duce mentioned France they heard an expectant hush among the people-a hush awaiting what he had to say-and after he said it they heard unanimous applause...
...much money old Mr. Baker gave his daughter or his son-in-law before he died no one knows. But certainly the Loews' way of life changed not at all after Mr. Baker left $5,000,000 to Mrs. William Goadby Loew. In Manhattan they have a house on 93rd Street next door to Mrs. Graham Fair Vanderbilt. They also have a Newport mansion and an estate at Old Westbury, where Mrs. Loew raises prize narcissi...
...wife and their 14 children said they had always known that some day "Old 97'' would come roaring in to put them all on Easy Street. In Richmond, Va., where he was visiting a son-in-law, David Graves George was planning at last to buy a tobacco farm. For eight years the withered old hillbilly had tried to establish himself as the author of "The Wreck of the Old 97," collect phonograph royalties from Victor Talking Machine Co. on that railroad ballad. Last week his case reached the nine black-robed judges of the U. S. Supreme...