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347 “Wealth is a great responsibility, more that it is a privilege.”
Hillwoodmuseum.org
Fall 1957
350 Mr. Herbert May, VP Westinghouse
Marriage at age 71
361 …fresh drink in hand, reached forward and gave young lad another pat, this one on his lower back.(RED FLAG)
364 How could. Be a woman of such good fortune, and yet have the worst luck of all when it came to the men I loved?

336 “The only thing I’v been phony in, Joe Davis,is pretending that I still loved you all these years. That you were a man worthy of me.”
337 Marjorie tells Joe Davis: “Get out.” “Like hell I will. This is my place. My name’s o the deed.”
340 At 68 years old, Marjorie divorces for the third time.
Hillwood Estate, Washington DC, July 4, 1957 Another Party
345 Jack and Jackie Kennedy

327 The first year of peace saw sales (General Foods) of almost $400 million. Texas land has oil
329 Joe has a meltdown on the ship
330 And it was not a single episode of bad behavior.
332 Washington D.C. Spring 1952 - Another party
333 Lyndon B Johnson & Lady Bird from Texas
334 Joe has intestinal cancer. Surgery, considered cured.

316 Marjorie Merriweather Post was a mother who wanted to ate the world a better place for her children. A wife who championed the cause of women. I hoped my words would matter.
320 Litvinov accepted and then unwrapped his package. “Mission to Moscow,” Maxim said, reading the title out loud. “By Ambassador Joseph Davis.”
324 Deenie to marry Stanley Rumbough, scion of the Colgate-Palmolive fortune.

297 Joe Davis diagnosed with Moscow Malaria, Basically a bad flu
303 Joe gets assigned to Belgium and Luxembourg. And they were mere miles from Adolf Hitler’s border.
310 Joe had wired to tell me he’d accepted Roosevelt’s job offer of Special Adviser to the Department of State, where he would counsel on Soviet policy and draw on other European relationships he had spent years so skillfully cultivating.

266 Edith Wilson, reporter
Betty Beale, possibly a gossip columnist
268 “Colby, I would like to join the board. I’d like to serve as Director at General Foods.” 1936-1958
274 January 1937 Joe is ambassador to Moscow. Spazzo (Spaso) House.
278 “Look, Joe” … Women! Serving in government.”
They do get that right here. -Joe

248 May and Jay Carlisle introduce Marjorie to Joe Davis, a married man
261 Marriage, for a 3rd time. And yet, this time, with this man, it felt so entirely different, so entirely unlike the others, that it might as well have been a first for me.
264 Billie Burke, Glinda the Good Witch
266 Edith Wilson, reporter
Betty Beale, possibly a gossip columnist

226 Winter 1934 Lindbergh Baby kidnapped and killed
235 Hilwood. Ned is having an affair with servant Renee at his house.
239 “I’ll pay you what’s fair, but you wont take my homes. … You’ll step down from the board of my company.
240 Ned Hutton to marry Dorothy Metzger (the one that made a spectacle of herself at the party)
Marjorie goes into a depression but comes out okay.

198 Clarence Birdseye, Ned is opposed to the purchase. Marjorie buys it anyway.
203 Post Cereal becomes General Foods.
205 So I bit my tongue as Ned and Flo threw way my money… port after port.
210 Ned blows $55k gambling. Marjorie is furious. They have a heated discussion about money.
213 Building Mar-A-Lago. Joseph Urban architect
216 Budget $1 million. It will not suffice. Takes 3 years and lots of money.

Palm Beach, Florida 1919
168 Mrs. Edward Hutton
Ned’s son Halcourt dies in page 171
New York Stock Exchange 1922
Colby Chester, President of Post
Ned - Chairman of the Board
179 Marjorie build hospital in West Palm
185 Dorothy Metzger, Adeline’s friend a spectacle
189 Marjorie suffers a miscarriage
190 200 Acres of Adirondack - Hutridge
193 Baby girl Deenie Hutton
196 Post buys out many food companies