Word: grandnephew
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Lowell is the great-grandnephew of James Russell Lowell, and a distant relative of Amy Lowell. He studied at Harvard from 1935 to 1937 and was graduated summa cum laude from Kenyon College...
...surprise of many a banker, Governor Nelson Rockefeller appointed Non-Banker Oren Root, 50, to be New York's new state banking superintendent. Energetic Lawyer Root, who, at 28, helped set off the Willkie-for-President boom, is a grandnephew of Elihu Root, Secretary of State under Theodore Roosevelt, and a son-in-law of Movie Magnate Spyros Skouras. Under New York's new Omnibus Banking Law, Root will rule on the merger applications of some of the world's biggest banks...
...great Roman emperor Augustus, grandnephew of Julius Caesar, was frightened of thunder and fond of virgins, but his most publicized characteristic was opposition to ostentation. He lived, according to the historian Suetonius, in a modest house on Rome's Palatine Hill. But his successor, Tiberius, crowned the hill with an elaborate palace, and when the Roman Empire fell, barbarian kings. Popes and nobles made their homes on the Palatine...
...merchandising geniuses who took over at J. L.'s death in 1912 and turned Hudson's into a quality department store. In April the three surviving Webber brothers-James died last year-turned active management of Hudson's over to old J. L.'s grandnephew, J. L. Hudson...
...phrases and well-remembered American hymns, an ebullient, white-haired apostle of Jesus last week exhorted Mormon converts in Brazil to "know in your hearts that Joseph Smith is the true prophet of God." The speaker's evangelical fervor poured forth naturally: he was Joseph Fielding Smith, 84, grandnephew of the founder, grandson of the prophet's martyred brother Hyrum, son of former Mormon President Joseph F. Smith, and himself senior member of the Council of the Twelve (the group of elders who are the spiritual and administrative leaders of the church). Traveling through southern Brazil...