Word: son-in-law
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...engineer, "Les" Glenn was graduated from Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken in 1921, taught mathematics at Lawrenceville, was in the building business in Manhattan for a year, then went into the Episcopal Church. For three years he was traveling secretary for Episcopal college work. He is the son-in-law of Mr. & Mrs. Harper Sibley of Rochester, N. Y., rich Episcopal lay members of the Laymen's Foreign Missions Inquiry...
...Antoni who sailed a lugger on the river. Soon the Vaccaros pooled their funds and chartered a leaky schooner, sent Son-in-Law D'Antoni to Central America for bananas. The venture was a little gold mine. Presently the Vaccaros bought a battered tramp steamer. Bananas boomed. The Vaccaros acquired a fleet of modern ships, bought up banana plantations in Mexico, Honduras, Nicaragua. Panama. Swart, stocky, with soft voices, the Vaccaros are now in their 70'$, are still known as shrewd traders. Until after the War they tended strictly to their banana business...
Curtis Bean Doll, son-in-law of Presi-dent-elect Roosevelt, resigned his partnership in the New York Stock Exchange firm of Goodbody & Co., announced he would become an independent broker with an office at E. F. Hutton...
...District, resigned as boardchairman of Yale & Towne Manufacturing Co. (locks). He was succeeded by President Walter C. Allen. Vice President & Treasurer William Gibson Carey Jr., 36, stepped up to the presidency. A onetime district manager for Container Corp. of America, smart young Lockman Carey is son-in-law of John Henry Towne, son of the founder...
...Literature; Francis Parkman of the famed Harvard family; Missouri-born Professor George Harold Edgell of the Fine Arts Department; Boston Lawyer Charles Pelham Curtis Jr., 37, a distinguished clubman but a stutterer; Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams; Law Professor Francis Bowes Sayre, Woodrow Wilson's son-in-law; Harvard Consultant-on-Careers Augustus Lowell Putnam (nephew); Biologist Clarence Cook ("Pete") Little, politically ousted ex-president of the University of Michigan; Professor Samuel Eliot Morison, official Harvard historian who, like Dr. Little, might be considered too liberal. A generation of students have known Abbott Lawrence Lowell...