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Because his famous papa erred...
...exacted from teachers who use his system, and are forced to buy his playing-cards, score-cards, and other paraphernalia. Yet with it all he found time in his syndicated newspaper article yesterday to give a good word for Sims and some advice to the kiddies. "I have acknowledged Papa Sims as the second greatest card player in the country, but after watching him play the following hand, I, for the moment, forgot myself by stating publicly that he was the first and greatest card player in the world." In the light of this statement, and of the friendly little...
...Charles Cutler Dawes, Colonel in the Illinois National Guard, filed a voluntary petition in bankruptcy listing debts of $532,874. His only tangible assets: $300 worth of military equipment and uniforms. With his family of three Son Charles, whose brokerage business was suspended in 1931, lives with Papa Dawes on Lake Shore Drive...
...private holding company, Coalesced Co. is an interesting family treasure chest which Government counsel asserted to be nothing but a tax-dodging device. Its voting but non-dividend-paying common stock is shared equally by Son Paul Mellon and Daughter Ailsa Mellon Bruce. Its dividend-paying preferred stock Papa Andrew kept for himself...
Philbert's mother finds him in the oven. (Caption: "So you stayed in there an' let the roast burn without tellin' Mamma!") Mamma makes Papa remove his suspenders in the street, to lower Philbert into a sewer. ("He thinks he sees a dime, don't he?") Tied to stilts, he helps Mamma sweep the floor. ("Another thing I thought of was sawing the broom off to fit him.'') He walks across the dinner table carrying a heaping dish. ("See if you can't take those Brussels sprouts over to Mrs. Dooley without stepping...