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...Gorgeous Hussy (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is Peggy O'Neale, Washington, D. C. innkeeper's daughter, whose second marriage, to President Andrew Jackson's Secretary of War John Eaton, caused an uproar in Washington society unrivaled until the appearance of Mrs. Dolly Gann in 1929. Peggy O'Neale's first marriage was to a Navy purser named John B. Timberlake, who committed suicide. The uproar started when the wives of other Cabinet members and Mrs. John C. Calhoun, wife of the Vice President, refused to receive her because gossip said she had been Secretary baton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Gorgeous Hussy | 9/7/1936 | See Source »

Left. By the late Charles Curtis, one-time (1929-33) Vice President of the U. S.; to Sister Dolly Curtis Gann, his official hostess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 2, 1936 | 3/2/1936 | See Source »

...warm place in those friends' hearts. As for a niche in U. S. history, his best chance seemed to be by reason of the facts that he had been: 1) the first man of Indian blood to become Vice President; 2) the half-brother of Dolly Curtis Gann...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VICE PRESIDENCY: Death of Curtis | 2/17/1936 | See Source »

...black-browed, fluent, he was Woodrow Wilson's western campaign manager. Staying on in Washington through the lean Republican 1920's, he practiced international law, his clients including the Governments of Mexico and Peru. All the New Deal brought him was the job held by Dolly Curtis Gann's husband, who represented President Trujillo Molina of Santo Domingo in Washington. Currently Joe Davies is Dictator Trujillo's personal counsel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Reshuffle | 12/23/1935 | See Source »

...dodge doing what he did not wish to do. Within less than three hours he, the Meyers, and I were being called up by the Press and the whole ridiculous episode was attributed to my having 'taken a stand' against the pretensions of Charlie Curtis and Mrs. Gann...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Princess Alice | 11/6/1933 | See Source »

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