Word: son-in-law
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Apprentice to Publisher. Long before his death, Adolph Ochs arranged that both papers would stay in the family. With only one child, Iphigene, that was not easy, but Ochs managed. Iphigene made an excellent marriage, to Arthur Hays Sulzberger, son of a cotton-textile manufacturer, and Son-in-Law Sulzberger made an excellent successor as pub lisher, president and ultimately board chairman of the New York Times. Furthermore, he had four children himself. And they got married and had children. After Ochs died in 1935, Arthur Hays Sulzberger was able to say that "the tradition carries...
According to the Italians, Nikita has been granted a monthly pension of 1,000 rubles ($1,111 at the official exchange rate). Not so lucky was Son-in-Law Adzhubei, who had been stripped of his influential job as Izvestia's editor...
...naive provincial behavior," and his "provocative attitude" toward the Red Chinese. He described Nikita's shoe banging at the United Nations in 1960 as "harmful to the reputation of the Soviet Union throughout the world." And he raised the matter of nepotism. Khrushchev had proposed that his son-in-law, Izvestia Editor Aleksei Adzhubei, be appointed to the Secretariat and placed in charge of agriculture...
...other times he invents a word or phrase to suit his needs. For instance, he labels a woman as "very house-proud"--because, by the way, she refuses to let her son-in-law leave the fly-infested corpse of his wife on her doorstep...
...Gore, 57, is favored over Memphis Businessman Dan H. Kuykendall, 40. But Representative Ross Bass, 46, running to fill the last two years of the late Estes Kefauver's term, may have rougher sledding against Knoxville Attorney Howard Baker Jr., 39, who is Everett Dirksen's son-in-law. Still, the pro-Democratic Negro vote and displeasure over Goldwater's stand on TVA are expected to send two Democrats to the Senate again...