Word: grandchildren
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pigskin suitcase. I thanked them and tried to resume my morning's work, when in came Otto, company chef, in spotless white. He wished me fortune. Other employes streamed in during the morning. Finally, just before I went home to celebrate with my wife, six children and seven grandchildren, who awaited me on Park Avenue, there came a message from my father, William H. Fiske, who has lived- most appropriately, some think, for the father of a life insurance...
...Bourdon. "I came from the Notman Studios in Montreal, Canada especially to take Harvard pictures. I took the pictures of the Classes of '74, '75, and '76 myself, and during the last three years, I have taken pictures of each of these on their fifteenth reunion. Also, many grandchildren of these men are now in college, and come in for their photos...
...hard for a year and all the time I have been homesick for England. For the last eleven years the longest time I have stayed in one place was eight months and that was when I was in London. I cannot keep still. If I stay like this my grandchildren will be tying me to a tree in the back yard. . . .I have decided to loaf about the world for two years and shall probably be all over the place unless stopped and made to write another book. Sometimes I wish I was just a plain, ordinary newspaper man again...
...stock would amount to anything and wouldn't advise anybody to invest in it." Horace H. Rackham had $5,000 that he hoped would grow. Mr. Couzens' sister, Mrs. Rosetta V. Hauss placed $100 in the pie. These people and a few others had children and grandchildren who were born with silver spoons in their mouths. Today the living and the heirs of the dead are being sued by the U. S. Govern-ment for a thousand times the amount of their original invest- ment...
...President von Hindenburg recognized this fact, instructing Dr. Wilhelm Marx who resigned as Chancellor last week to carry on ad interim. Thus by a comfortable and quite orthodox German stratagem the Herr President was able to free himself from weighty cares at Yuletide and play Kris Kringle to his grandchildren...