Word: chief
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ornamentally idle have been the lives of military aides to the President that Army and Navy he-men well have dreaded the assignments, right honorable though they are. The chief duties were: 1) to stand grandly by when the President received new foreign envoys; 2) to pass tea and sandwiches smilingly at White House at-homes; 3) to add splendor to the President's official trips...
When President Coolidge brought into Washington from the plains Col. Osmun Latrobe as his aide, that weather-bitten old soldier was so patiently bored that the President gave him an additional assignment as assistant to the Chief of Cavalry...
Intimations of trouble came when the Senate Ladies Luncheon Club elected Mrs. Senator Moses of New Hampshire to succeed Mrs. Vice President Dawes as their chief, instead of Mr. Gann's wife who, as sister of the widower Vice President-Elect, had already begun to function as the latter's official hostess (TIME...
...hostess and that, as such, she should have the full rank of the Vice President's lady in the complex social scheme of official Washington. Secretary Kellogg had ruled that Mrs. Gann could not rate on the level of the Vice President but below the wives of the Chief Justice, the Speaker, the Secretary of State, and all foreign Ambassadors and Ministers...
...James Clement Dunn, Chief of the State Department's Protocol Division, Secretary Kellogg had apparently gone for this precedent. And Mr. Dunn had apparently based his opinion upon the authoritative statement of Mrs. Kellogg's social secretary, Miss Anne Squire, who had written: "Sisters . . . of an official take no precedence whatever. Even when they act as hostesses for the head of a family, they are, except in his house, deprived of the rank of wife." To all Embassies and Legations had gone this Kellogg ruling on Mrs. Gann...