HARRY’S MARRIAGE PROPOSAL
So, I’m thinking that the company has come to visit the President, Frank. I’m figur- ing the doctor is ok with this, too. Tomorrow they come in again. What happened? The man who kept the books, Rossin, his name was... So, one time they came to the President, my husband, Frank, and said, ‘Maybe we should have someone check the books and see if everything is accurate.’ It became bigger and bigger and bigger. It was multiple thousands already missing. But it’s everybody’s money. It’s not one man’s money. This man, being that he was Secretary of the books; he knew that he wasn’t watched. So, Rossin took out a thousand dollars and bet on the horses. He wasn’t a happy man. He married the wrong woman. He was just a very unhappy man. So, he looked for an outlet how to make himself happy, and he bet on the horses, and he lost thousands of dollars. So the next week the Secretary gives him a thousand dollars or ten thousand dollars. Whatever the Secretary gives him, that’s how much he deposits. Every week the people who borrowed money paid the interest and principal. Nobody watches each other. You know what I mean? Anyhow, he stole from The Corporation fifteen thousand dollars before they realized it. And now Rossin is on his death bed because he had consumption (TB). And it was brought to Frank’s attention. They got a new Secretary, and he finds out reading the books the money is missing. What the problem is? What happened to this money, that money? So, they came to Frank while he was in the hospital. If I’d have found out why they visited him, I would have chased them out. I wouldn’t want Frank to get aggravated. But, I didn’t know. I just thought they came to see the President. Anyhow, we brought Frank home, and a few weeks later then I found out what was going on.
Dora Shooster - The first son who met the first girl was Harry. We decided to send him on a week’s vacation to Camp Canada. He was going around with a girl, Ethal, a very wealthy girl. So, we were satisfied. One day her father, Mr. Kohn, said it didn’t suit him that his son-in-law-to-be worked at a gas station and went around in overalls. So, he comes down to us, and he says, ‘You know the children are in love? So, why can’t you do something for the children? Let them get married!’ So Frank says, ‘I’m not against it. Let them get married.’ Mr. Kohn says, ‘I’ll give $15,000, and you’ll give $10,000, and I have a company that would like to take him in. So he will be all dressed up, manage his...’ After all, he was a millionaire. One day, her father, Mr. Kohn, said, ‘I don’t want my son-in-law to go around in overalls and be a station attendant.’ So Frank didn’t tell him he didn’t have that kind of money. So, he says, ‘Mr. Kohn, I have the biggest respect for you, but my son is with me in the business, and if your daughter likes Harry, I have no objections. Don’t give him nothing and Ethel is going to live with us. She’ll stay with Harry and live in the room he’s got.’ TROUBLE IN THE CORPORATION Dora Shooster - Frank was President of The Corporation. There was a Vice President and the rest. That corporation was hooked up very nicely. Frank was a very nice man, so he believed everybody. So years went on, he was President, by that time 25 years already. I’ll never forget it, he was a very sick man and had just been operated on at the hospi- tal and who comes in? Abrahms, Lauw, about three or four people. The Vice President, Trea- surer, etc., of The Corporation.
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