Word: son-in-law
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...Published by James M. Thompson, son-in-law of the late Champ Clark of Missouri, eloquent Speaker of the House, who battled Woodrow Wilson for control of the Democratic party...
...this new glorification of the melting pot, all the trouble starts when Mr. Van Dorn, blueblood, announces a prejudice against the prospect of an Italian daughter-in-law and a Jewish son-in-law. "We gotta get outta this neighborhood!" shouts the agitated aristocrat again and again. He thinks that, by moving, the love of democratic young Americans can be thwarted. Mrs. Van Dorn disapproves of her husband's arbitrary ways. Through her, Playwright William Perlman brings out the salient point that Mr. Van Dorn is not justified in assuming Castilian airs, because, even if the Van Dorns...
...each) per mile.† As President of the Board of the P. & O., James Lyle Mackay, First Viscount Inchcape of Strathnaver, 73, unchallenged maritime seigneur,** deigned to make no statement last week when the P. & O. balance sheet flashed over the cables. For him spoke his son-in-law, the Hon. Alexander Shaw, a Director of the Bank of England and of the P. & O.: "1925 was the worst year for British shipping on record." Corroborative statistics released by the Cunard Line show a profit for that proverbially well managed concern of only $1,600,000 for 1925. The truth...
...found among those who know nothing whatever about it." The $11,000,000 realized by the sale of the paper is all to be used to buy art works for Kansas City. It is perhaps fortunate that the men who are paying it-Irwin Kirkwood, present editor and son-in-law of Mr. Nelson, in cooperation with the managing editor, the general manager, and the chief editorial writer-have a profound respect for a business they know a good deal about, the business of running a newspaper...
...stock of the Curtis Publishing Co. is held very jealously by officials and employes of the company-by Publisher Curtis, Son-in-law E. W. Bok, Editor George Lorimer, and a few others. They dislike making a financial statement of their affairs. But to be considered at all on the Manhattan Stock Exchange a concern must file such statements at definite intervals. With this general custom Curtis Publishing has now complied. There are 900,000 shares of no par common stock and 182,707 of 1% preferred* which officials consider the equivalent of $30,000,000 capitalization. But last year...