Word: nephew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...witness who appeared before the House committee was Nathan Levine, a New York attorney and a nephew of Mrs. Chambers, who said he had been the innocent custodian of the papers for the past ten years. In 1938, he said, Chambers had given him a large manila envelope to keep, instructing him to open it if anything happened to Chambers and his wife. "You are a lawyer, and will know what to do," Chambers had said...
...Chiang had called in son Ching-kuo (TIME, Sept. 20) to take charge of harsh drives against black markets in Shanghai. But the drive bogged down, Chinese said, when Chiang's police discovered hoarded goods in the godowns of David Kung, son of Banker H. H. Kung and nephew of Madame Chiang. The Shanghai press screamed for action, but a few days later David Kung with Madame Chiang visited the Gimo. The case was still "under investigation...
Visiting Hours. At Buckingham Palace, Princess Margaret came bounding back from a weekend in the country, and went racing up the stairs to see her nephew. There were gifts to be opened, sheaves of telegrams to be acknowledged (the palace post office reported a record haul of 4,100 on one day), including one from President Truman, one from the Pope and one from General Eisenhower. "We are particularly happy," wired Ike, "because the birthday of the prince is the same as that of Mrs. Eisenhower." A six-foot battalion commander of the Home Guard sent a sweater knitted...
...Pendergast machine of Kansas City, which gave Harry Truman his start in politics, all but fell apart last week, just as its most famous offspring reached his greatest glory. When fat old Tom Pendergast died in 1945, after a short stretch in Leavenworth for income-tax evasion, his nephew and image, Jim Pendergast, took over the creaky remnants of the machine. But Jim just didn't have the touch...
While J. P. W. lived in the White House, his record was almost unimpeachable. Religious leaders blessed him for refusing to wed the illegitimate daughter of an illegitimate son of an illegitimate nephew of Napoleon, a stand which incidentally showed Wintergreen to be steadfastly against entangling alliances and alien unorthodoxy...