Word: gann
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Twice within the year he barely escaped notoriety: 1) when he announced that, as a friendly gesture, he would import under his diplomatic privilege no more liquors and wines for the British Embassy:† 2) when as the dean of the diplomatic corps he announced that Mrs. Edward Everett Gann, half-sister of Vice President Charles Curtis, would be accorded all the social honors and attentions of No. 2 lady of the land without setting a precedent (TIME, April...
...Last week President Hoover gave a state dinner to Vice President Curtis, escorted Mrs. Edward Everett Gann to the seat of honor at his right. Present were many distinguished guests. Absent were all government officials and their wives...
...there is no Mrs. Mellon, it fell to tall, golden-haired, blue-eyed Mrs. Patrick Jay Hurley, wife of the Secretary of War, youngest Cabinet lady, to accompany President Hoover to the Mayflower Hotel last week to dine with Vice President Curtis and his hostess-sister, Mrs. Edward Everett Gann. After dinner the President and Mrs. Hurley went to a reception at the Congressional Wom en's Club, leaving Mr. Curtis and Mrs. Gann behind. Mrs. Gann did not attend with the Vice President because the club had failed to follow custom by electing her president. After the reception President...