Monday, Aug. 11, 1924
Wilhelm: "My eldest son, Friedrich, took his eldest son, Wilhelm, to Hamburg, personally inducted him into a clerical situation with an old importing and exporting firm-- his first employment. Newspapers headlined: 'KAISER'S GRANDSON CLERK.' "
George II of Greece: "Pointing to the fact that the Greek 'Royalists have joined forces with the Venizelists, The London Daily Express, plebs' paper, stated its belief that a counterrevolution will ensconce me upon the throne whence I was deposed in March, represented me as saying: 'I am convinced that it will be only a matter of time until I am recalled.' "
George Wharton Pepper, senior U. S. Senator from Pennsylvania: " Vacationing, I sailed for Frenchman's Bay, Me., on the 100-foot schooner of Frank B. Noyes, President of the Associated Press. Newspapers featured me as having shipped before the mast. Said I: 'I'm working my way as a deckhand, trimming sails and taking my turn at the wheel like an old hand. That's my idea of a vacation!' "
John William Davis: "Accompanied by Frank L. Polk and my secretary, I strode out onto the Tarrantine Country Club golf links at Dark Harbor, Me. We drove off. It was growing dusk when we reached the ninth hole, forcing us to stop, but I had played the best game of my life--'out' in 44. I was reported as saying that, could we have played the last nine, I would have finished with an 82 or 83."
Frank A. Munsey, Publisher: "At a Manhattan dinner which I attended, together with Editor Swope of The New York World, conversation and speeches agitated the idea of getting the G. O. P. convention for New York in 1928. It was urged by many who heard of this dinner that the Republicans would not suffer from the chief pestilence that fell upon the Democrats in Madison Square Garden--namely, Tammany hooligans in the galleries."
William Kissam Vanderbilt, financier: "It was announced that I would embark on my palatial yacht, the Ara, with a party of friends, to undertake a cruise halfway round the world to study the ocean's bottom and the currents, to collect marine specimens for my museum on Long Island. It was recalled that the last yachtsman to undertake a serious oceanographic research was the late Prince Albert of Monaco, whose extensive labors were rewarded with the Agassiz gold medal of the National Academy of Science."