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...Monday evening came the President's great state dinner for his distinguished guest, now his friend. Seated at the mammoth horseshoe were 86 diners. Vice President Curtis and his sister Mrs. Gann, the British Ambassador and Mrs. Howard, all Cabinet members and their wives, Prime Minister MacDonald's official party, mainstay Senators and their wives, were chief guests. Notably absent were Speaker of the House and Mrs. Longworth, who were "in Cincinnati," thereby reviving still more gossip on the Longworth-Gann feud...
...beauties, Vice President Curtis last week decided what lady should sit second highest at the state dinner for Prime Minister MacDonald at the White House on Monday night. He decided for Lady Isabella Howard, wife of the British Ambassador, and against his sister-hostess, Mrs. Edward Everett Gann...
Hurrying back to Washington from Topeka, Kan. to be present, Mrs. Gann said: "I don't know a thing about what has been done...
...Associated with Founder Vandever on a national advisory committee are such varied figures as the Hon. Theodore Gilmore Bilbo, Governor of Mississippi; General Robert Lee Bullard, U. S. A. retired; James William Crabtree, Secretary of the National Education Association. Honorary Chairman of the Founders Committee is Mrs. Edward Everett Gann, Second Lady of the Land. From its donors the Lincoln Fund asks no capital gifts. It is stipulated that the contributions shall be returned to the benefactors or to their estates at the end of 30 years. To do this the Fund will issue non-interest-bearing debenture bonds...
...Gann's brother, Vice President Charles Curtis, continued last week to "rest up" between sessions of Congress. Once a jockey, he will go down in history as the Vice President (or as the President, if anything should happen to President Hoover) who liked to go to horse races, just as Grover Cleveland liked duckshooting, Calvin Coolidge fishing, Herbert Hoover building toy dams. In the minds of many a temperate Christian woman, horse-racing is almost as iniquitous as liquor but so far no prying soul has disturbed the Vice President's innocent pleasure. During the Spring he went...