Word: grandchildren
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Among the 30 guests at last week's small but celebrity-dotted wedding: democratic Jock Whitney's chauffeur and valet, Betsey Roosevelt's two children (Sara Delano and Kate Roosevelt), secret service men who keep constant guard over the President's grandchildren...
...round out 46 years in the Episcopate. At 85 he is the oldest active bishop in the worldwide Anglican communion. Instead of three struggling stations his diocese includes hospitals, schools and churches scattered over nearly 600,000 square miles of territory; and now he is confirming the children and grandchildren of Indians and Eskimos he converted to Christianity before the turn of the century...
These casual reminiscences illustrate only a few of Mr. Kittredge's characteristic traits. I have given no account of his life in his family circle, in which he took the greatest delight, especially at Barnstable on the Cape, where his children and grandchildren all lived close at hand. I have also omitted all discussions of the qualities of his scholarship. But what I have said may make him better understood by those who know him only at a distance...
...Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt, her daughter-in-law, and to her five grandchildren, Mrs. Roosevelt left one-tenth of her estate, to be divided in six equal parts. To St. James Church she gave $5,000. The rest of her estate she bequeathed "unto my beloved son, Franklin D. Roosevelt, forever...
...Hudson, Mrs. Roosevelt sat at the head of the table, placed her son beside her. She did not care forsome of the customs the young people introduced- cocktails, for instance. But she was always happy when she could have Franklin and his family of tall children and growing grandchildren around...