Word: gann
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...away!" shouted Husband Gann at the newshawks. "Newspapers? What do we care?" cried he, and complained about having been called "Mr. Dolly Gann" in the public prints...
Autograph collectors and newspaper men flocked around the box of Mrs. Edward Everett ("Dolly" Curtis) Gann. She had suddenly become the heroine of the convention through her brother's victory...
Vice President. An early arrival in the city was Mrs. Edward Everett ("Dolly") Gann, looking slightly less plump than usual. As to her brother Charles Curtis' chances of being renominated for the Vice Presidency, she "had not a single doubt." Neither had Secretary of the Treasury Mills, a delegate from New York, who appeared on the scene with the word of the White House on his lips. But ruddy little Chief Counsel James Francis Burke of the national committee, who claimed seniority over anyone at the gathering because he went to the 1892 Minneapolis convention the week after...
Political speechmaking is a new avocation for Mrs. Gann. Topeka, Omaha and Chicago have heard her. Women turn out to see "the girl who put Alice Longworth in her place." In substance her addresses wave the U. S. flag, laud President Hoover, belittle the Depression and exude good Republican cheer. She returns to Washington to encourage national headquarters with reports that women everywhere are enthusiastic about a Hoover-Curtis ticket this year...
...great Washington Bicentennial Ball at the Mayflower last fortnight, Mrs. Gann as No. 1 guest (the Hoovers did not attend) appeared in a Colonial gown of green taffeta with petticoat of white satin and lace. All her efforts to get Vice President Curtis into costume with a wig and sword were unavailing. Because of the dignity of his office, he insisted on wearing his ordinary evening clothes, watching the spectacle from his box. Chief Justice Hughes, who also attended, felt the same, would not dress...