Word: nephew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nephew to Soviet Ambassador to the U. S. Alexander Troyanovsky...
...reprisals-arrested a Chinese on a minor charge in Seattle. The culprit talked freely about a much more interesting compatriot named Chin Joo Hip in Butte, Mont. Chin Joo Hip, a wrinkled, cadaverous tongman with drooping white mustaches, received a call from the agent, who pretended to be the nephew of a rich Pacific Coast gangster. Presently they were fast friends. When the agent left to go East to buy opium for his "uncle," he had a warm letter of introduction to a tongsman named Jimmy Wong...
Married. Mrs. Lillian Stokes Bostwick McKim, sister of polo-playing, steeplechasing George H. (''Pete"), Dunbar and Albert Bostwick, to Ogden Phipps, court-tennist. stable owner, nephew of the late Ogden Mills; quietly and to the surprise even of Mr. Phipps's household servants; in a Manhattan apartment...
...jobholders in Washington had stronger political connections than the FCC division directors. John F. Killeen (Broadcast) was Postmaster General Farley's protege; Robert T. Bartley (Telegraph) is the nephew of House Democratic Leader Sam Rayburn; A. G. Patterson (Telephone) was an assistant to Hugo LaFayette Black when he investigated air and ocean mail contracts (TIME, Oct 9, 1933 et seq.). Amiable Chairman Mc-Ninch said he would be glad to recommend all three for jobs outside...
Enrolled as a freshman at Lincoln Memorial University, Harrogate, Tenn., was Ann Rutledge, 18, daughter of Donald Rutledge of Ottumwa, Iowa, a nephew of the Ann Rutledge who was Abraham Lincoln's tragic, youthful love. She was working in a WPA theatre project in Chicago when she was introduced to the president of Lincoln Memorial, was persuaded to enter...