Word: grandchildren
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grandchildren of Manhattan Lawyer Henry Waters Taft, brother of the 27th President of the U. S., were quietly shipped off to Europe on the S. S. Majestic because the family was in constant dread of snatchers...
...these affairs rose to trouble Edwin Gould but the legal entanglements arising from them. In 1916, Younger Brother Frank and Younger Sister Anna sued the four trustees for mismanagement of their father's estate. For eleven years this suit, to which there were innumerable parties, children, strange grandchildren, stranger great grandchildren,* dragged on. Finally the law decided that Brother George had mismanaged the estate and a judgment for $50,000,000 was entered against the four trustees-settlement for which was made by compromise at $20,000,000. Meantime, however. Brother George had died, leaving an estate...
...Paul Ernest Boniface de Castellane, Georges Gustave Marie Antoine Boniface Charles de Castellane (Anna's children by her first marriage), Helene Violette de Talleyrand (Anna's daughter by her second marriage): Anna Eleanor Marie Raymonde de Castellane, Pauline Beatrix Yvonne Helene Flourida de Castellane (Anna's grandchildren); Francoise Florence de Montenach, Rolande Dorothy de Graffenried de Villiers (grandchildren of Frank Gould): Eileen Vivien de la Poer Beresford O'Brien, Arthur George Marcus Douglas de la Poer Beresford (children of George's daughter, Vivien, Lady Decies): not to mention several dozen others of less distinguished names...
...where he surrounds himself with as many as possible of his enormous family. He has three sons, Paul, Lester & Arthur - all working in the business - and four daughters, Helen, Mabel, Emma, Alice. All seven are married and have presented Father Cuddihy with a grand total of 28 grandchildren (some of them nearly as old as his youngest daughter). A frequent summer visitor is the Rt. Rev. Msgr. John P. Chidwick. famed chaplain of the U. S. S. Maine, who likes to putter around the place in a ragged sweater. Publisher Cuddihy knows well many a famed politician, among them Herbert...
...daughter died of pneumonia; one of his sons was killed in the War; the other lost an arm, married a girl his parents disapproved of. When Carr came to die he had worked hard, done his best, though he had little wealth to show for it. But he had grandchildren and friends, and a wife who still loved him. The Author is a writing example of what a woman can do in a man's world besides getting married. Born & brought up in Yorkshire's West Riding, in the midst of the woolen industry, she joined her passion...