Word: gann
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington, one of the capital's most striking relatives back in the Herbert Hoover era broke into the papers again with a bang (and a Hat) the day after the great Republican landslide. Photographed with Bess Truman at the Washington Club was Dolly Gann, onetime vice presidential sister, whose brave struggles in the capital's social war used to make national news...
...when Washington eyebrows seemed permanently elevated over Dolly Gann and who-sits-where-at-dinner, a determined social secretary hauled off and settled it all. She wrote a book, which had plenty of ground rules for entertaining the Vice President (e.g., he sits at hostesses' right). Of this official she stated: "His avocation is to replace the President . . . in the political-social life . . . by appearing everywhere...