Word: gann
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Edward Everett Gann, an unassuming man, long led a quiet life in Washington. He practiced law, he made some money. He never troubled his head about Society and Society never troubled its head about him. Edward Everett Gann was a happy...
Also, of course, Mr. & Mrs. Coolidge left the White House behind. On inauguration eve they had Mr. and Mrs. Hoover, Senator Curtis and Mrs. E. E. Gann, the Senator's sister, to dinner and showed the new President and first lady their new quarters...
...Senate Ladies' Luncheon Club was distressfully snarled on the election of a president to succeed Mrs. Dawes. By custom the Vice President's wife presides. But Vice President-Elect Curtis is a widower. His sister, Mrs. Edward E. Gann, is to serve as his official hostess. Should that make her a Senate Lady? Should that make her president of the club...
...that Mrs. George Higgins Moses (nee Florence Abby Gordon), the lively, pince-nezzed wife of the bellicose Senator from New Hampshire, had been chosen to head the luncheon club. "Mr. Moses is President pro tern, of the Senate, you see, so that made it most appropriate . . .," etc. etc. Mrs. Gann was elected a Senate Lady only on a nonvoting, honorary basis...
...Vice President-Elect Curtis leased, last week, the ten-room Vice-Presidential suite in Washington's Mayflower Hotel. Mr. Curtis's sister, Mrs. Edward E. Gann, and her husband, for 20 years a Washington lawyer, will make their home with Mr. Curtis. Since Mr. Curtis is a widower, Mrs. Gann will receive at Vice-Presidential social functions...