Word: son-in-law
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...plan was offered by Samuel P. Rosoff, wealthy subway contractor. It was drawn up by the legal firm of Satterlee & Canfield. Herbert Livingston Satterlee is a brother-in-law of J. P. Morgan. The member of the firm who drew the plan was David M. Milton, son-in-law of John Davison Rockefeller Jr. Neither the young Jewish banker who brought the Bank of U. S. to glory and destruction, nor his methods were ever given much countenance by the higher financial community. If the proposed reorganization is carried out, the bank will pass apparently into another circle of financial...
...study of comparative religion, philosophy and science. 3) To investigate unexplained laws of nature and the power latent in man." But Theosophists believe in many a dogmatic mystery, among them reincarnation. Mrs. Besant in previous incarnations has been sister and wife to the same being; husband, son and son-in-law to another; king of southern and northern India. At present she is a still energetic old woman who stands as temporal Head to some 43,000 scattered Theosophists...
...Major-General Pershing's first inkling of overseas service came in a telegram from his father-in-law, the late Senator Warren of Wyoming, asking if he knew French. Son-in-law Pershing wired back the "comparatively accurate" response that he once knew and spoke the language and could easily "reacquire" it. Not for days after he reached Washington did it dawn on him that he was being made, not a divisional commander, but chief of the whole...
...wrested (1099) Jerusalem from the "Infidels." The 13 candidates prepared to kneel in St. Patrick's Cathedral, Manhattan, be given spurs and sword, draw sword and be tapped on the shoulder with it, in true medieval fashion. Most socialite of the thirteen knights: Kenneth O'Brien, son-in-law of Knight of Malta Clarence Hungerford Mackay...
Averardi, son-in-law of Signore Orlando, former premier of Italy, has taken active part in international relations at the Genoa Conference, the Naval Conference in Washington, D. C., and in the League of Nations Conferences...