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When Widower Charles Curtis was elected Vice President of the United States in 1928, he assumed that his half-sister, Mrs. Dolly Gann, would rank as his official hostess. Dolly had been with Curtis in Washington ever since he came out of Kansas to enter the House of Representatives in 1893, and had acted as his secretary for 20 years. Even her marriage to Patent Lawyer Edward Everett Gann, a Kentucky Democrat, did not separate Dolly from brother Charles. She continued to play an active part in his campaigns and, after the death of his wife in 1924, she became...
...predecessor, Frank Kellogg, had irritated Curtis by ruling against Dolly.) After a chat with President Hoover, canny Henry Stimson ruled that the matter would have to be decided by the diplomatic corps. In a plenary session at the British Embassy, the harried diplomats gave the nod to Dolly Gann...
...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...
Died. Edward Everett Gann, 55, onetime (1914-21) special assistant to the U. S. Attorney General, husband of Dolly Curtis Gann; of heart disease; in Washington. Unruffled throughout his wife's squabble over precedence with Alice Roosevelt Longworth, he patiently attended every function at which Mrs. Gann Vice President Curtis were official guests...