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...bedroom fireplace: his own, his mother's, his wife's, his Aunt Dora Forbes's, his daughter's, Son John's, Son Franklin's, Granddaughter "Sistie" Dalls, Grandson "Buzzie" Dall's. Next morning very early the President was awakened by his grandchildren, another Roosevelt tradition dictating that the grownups must supervise the opening of all packages. The family tree, set up in the second floor hall, was decorated with real candles because Mr. Roosevelt dislikes the new-fangled electric bulbs. Then the President settled down to open three clothes hampers full of presents...
...Pratt Family, prolific seed of the late famed Charles Pratt, co-founder of Standard Oil Co.. held its annual Christmas reunion, as it has done for nearly 40 years. Some 120 of Charles Pratt's chil dren, grandchildren, their cousins, aunts, and in-laws assembled for buffet supper at the Manhattan home of Herbert Lee Pratt, one of Charles's five sons, board chairman of Standard Oil Co. of New York and Socony-Vacuum Corp. Among the guests: the George Dupont Pratts (art patron), the Frederic Bayley Pratts (president of famed Pratt Institute in Brooklyn), the Charles...
...overpowering local influence of the Klebergs as rulers of the King Ranch. The lawyer is Thomas Hart Fisher, whose father was President Taft's Secretary of the Interior, himself a member of Chicago's eminent firm of Fisher, Boyden, Bell, Boyd & Marshall. His clients are two grandchildren of old Captain King named Atwood. These Chicago heirs have long been dissatisfied with the way their first cousin, Robert II, has run the ranch. Most serious of the many charges astute Mr. Fisher has brought are: 1) The trustees have turned the management of the ranch entirely over to Robert...
...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...