Word: grandchildren
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President as "Al," Editor Smith was in high spirits. He stalked about, gesticulating like an actor, acting out funny stories while other guests roared with laughter.* After 30 minutes he stopped at another teaparty of Mrs. Roosevelt's on the floor below, asked her how many grandchildren she had. "I've got eight," said Al Smith, "but don't give up, you've still got a chance." Later Al Smith emerged to tell reporters that politics had entered the conversation only once. "One of the children asked for another piece of cake. That has a political...
Then for a moment the President's eyes dwelt in kindly fashion on a family group, spry, fox-bearded Henry Morgenthau Sr., aged 77, standing with his wife, daughter-in-law and grandchildren. Old "Uncle Henry" was bursting with pride because his son was being honored even more greatly than he himself had been honored two decades before when another Democratic President had named him Ambassador to Constantinople. From happy "Uncle Henry" the presidential eye passed on and came to rest on little wizened Mr. Woodin...
...good boy." Lieutenant-Governor Chandler learned that he had a half-sister, two half-brothers who had never heard of him and did not know of their mother's first marriage. Mrs. Chamberlin planned to go back to Kentucky with her son, meet a daughter-in-law, four grandchildren. Said Lawrence Fortune: "It couldn't happen...
...member of the Bacardi family and as the representative of the company in the U. S. of America, I beg to correct certain statements and comments which you have published. You refer to 16 living grandchildren and their various null as liking to have hand in running the Santiago distillery and say that "as soon as a distributor was certain he had landed the agency, he would discover that another Bacardi was dickering with another distributor." This is far from the truth as all negotiations were handled directly with the president of the company or with the undersigned...
...contract for Cuba's rum but nearly every distributor has flirted ardently with the heirs of Founder Facundo Bacardi. At least seven bidders at one time or another have sworn that the agency was theirs. But Facundo Bacardi (pronounced "back-ar-dee'') had 22 grandchildren and most of the 16 living and their various in-laws like to have a hand in running the huge Santiago distillery. As soon as a distributor was certain he had landed the agency, he would discover that another Bacardi was dickering with another distributor. Canada Dry Ginger Ale, once its dryish...