Word: gann
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...defeat of her half-brother also numbered the happy days of big, buxom, buoyant Dolly Curtis Gann as Second Lady of the Land. From a modest vine-clad house in Cleveland Park she had risen to queen it over Washington society. The nation's snickers at her battle for precedence over Alice Roosevelt Longworth, the late Speaker's wife, had left her unabashed. She it was who kept her brother Charlie's backbone stiff in demanding every honor due the Vice President. She had come to fancy herself as a political spellbinder and G.O.P. headquarters found...
...Curtis was discovered as construction superintendent of N. P. Severin Construction Co. of Chicago, now building in Newark, N. J. a $2,744,900 post office, a story started to the effect that he was a brother of the Vice President and that Half-Sister Dolly Gann was largest Severin stockholder. Because Severin Co. averages two or three big post office contracts a year, rival contractors talked darkly of "Washington pull." Vice President Curtis indignantly denied that the superintendent at Newark was his relative "in any shape or form, near or distant" or that any of his family was interested...
...displace President Hoover at this critical juncture would be a real calamity for the whole world?Mrs. Dolly Curtis Gann...
...Senator Arthur Capper's luncheon, the Vice President received the news on the north steps of the State capitol. That location was chosen for economy's sake, as no expensive awning was needed to shade the notifiers. With the Vice President were his sister, Mrs. Dolly Gann; his daughter, Mrs. Leona Knight; his rambunctious son Harry. On the lawn were 5,000 spectators. Nominee Curtis made a speech. It was broadcast over 48 stations but omitted from New York and Chicago...
...Just tell them I'm happy, and thank everybody for being so kind," called stal wart Mrs. Gann. "Platform? I haven't a thing to say about the platform. . . . I think the platform is all right. . . . I'm going to speak at Newport...