Word: papas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...open Parliament for the last time in his five year vice-Regal term. The next Governor General may just possibly be His Majesty's youngest son the Duke of Kent. Last week Lord Bessborough further miffed Canadians by insisting that his youngest son, aged 3, should see papa open Canada's Senate and House of Commons. As usual the vice-Regal tot arrived guarded by a six-foot, red-jacketed Canadian Royal Mounted Policeman, pistol...
...ensure that nobody should be able to assassinate Pierre Laval on Italian soil last week, his train clicked over tracks guarded every 50 feet by a trim Fascist militiaman who snapped to salute at sight of Excellency Laval and his vivacious daughter José-"Josette" to her adoring papa. As usual Mama Laval remained at home...
Though the clerk made good and became perhaps the greatest self-made Governor of the Bank of France in its long history, Mama Moret could never see why she or the children should cut a dash. With papa's salary raised to 500,000 francs a year the Moret moppets continued to go to ordinary Paris public schools. Mama Moret and Paris socialites are unaware of each other's existence. Today the National Tightwad is venerated for having saved a reputed 85%, of his salary while Governor of the Bank of France, salted it away in gold franc...