Word: brownings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only brown turbanite in the parade. Lightly as the Bosses appraise the worth of women in politics, they saw to it that Houston need yield nothing to Kansas City in the number, the beauty, the distinction of its lady delegates. Mabel Walker Willebrandts were scarce, but the Bosses could outmatch Leona Curtis Knight, daughter of mere Vice-Presidential Curtis, with Emily Smith Warner, favorite daughter of the Brown Derby himself. Delegate Warner was not unbefriended. Her mother, husband,* sister, three brothers, many in-laws, were among the watched and watching observers. But she missed her father, sent him cheering messages...
...mother, the ample, friendly woman who had been Kitty Dunn, would be perhaps the most conspicuous, not the most distinguished of Houston's unofficial guests. Edith Boiling Gait Wilson, widow of Democracy's last President, held the Wilsonian mantle over the shoulders of the Brown Derby, deciding the dynastic succession. Observer Smith and Observer
...easily missed would be Mrs. Jefferson Borden Harriman, seasoned veteran of conventions. Delegate Harriman bustled, conferred, entertained, all in the interests of the Brown Derby but with one eye on the features of Montana's rugged Walsh, onetime candidate. Did he frown, remembering earlier bustling, conferring, entertaining in his behalf? Did he smile, recalling that he had released his followers from political loyalty, if not from personal affection? Delegate Harriman speculated. In a dining-room high above Times Square, Manhattan, another friend lunched privately and importantly with his fellow princes of the press. Diminutive Louis Wiley, presiding over...
After 15 minutes of silent meditation, one man and three women in the congregation were moved-by-the-Spirit. Each stood up and talked briefly. The man, a civil engineer, named Robert Brown talked about religious pioneering as compared to scientific pioneering. Nominee Hoover wore a double-breasted dark grey suit, white canvas shoes. In the afternoon, Nominee and Mrs. Hoover motored...
...descendant of both the brother and half-brother of George Washington, Baltimore, Md.; Mrs. Ronald Randolph Fairfax, Roanoke, Va.; Miss Mary Seton Lindsay, Long Island, N. Y.; Mrs. John Marshall Slaton, wife of the onetime Governor of Georgia, Atlanta; Miss Alcy Sivyer, Milwaukee; Miss Sylvia Brewster, Miss Charlotte B. Brown and Mrs. Lawrence B. Van Ingen, New York; Mrs. Edward A. Leight, Chicago; Miss Elizabeth Sturges, Providence, R. I.; and the onetime Miss Maude Hunnewell, recent bride of U. S. Charge d'Affairs at London Ray Atherton...