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Longworth v. Gann. Without warning, armistice ceased in the war against Mrs. Edward Everett Gann as "official hostess" to her brother, Vice President Curtis (TIME, April 15, et seq.). This time the combat moved into front-line trenches as the lady of the Speaker of the House pitted herself against the lady of the President of the Senate...
Eugene Meyer Jr. was retiring as head of the Federal Farm Loan Board. A farewell dinner was in order. Mrs. Meyer ingeniously devised a system of four tables to circumvent the troublesome question of Precedence. She would head one table, Mr. Meyer another, Vice President Curtis a third, Mrs. Gann a fourth...
...were Speaker Longworth and his popular, influential wife, Alice Roosevelt Longworth, onetime "Princess Alice" of the White House. Great is Mrs. Longworth's political prestige, great her social power, independent her behavior. She sent Mrs. Meyer her regrets, making it clear that she declined to sit below Mrs. Gann. Not to be outdone, Mrs. Gann and the Vice President, likewise stayed at home that evening...
...arrival of the Duke of Gloucester in Tokyo created a hostess problem almost as interesting as Washington's strange affair of Mrs. Gann. Positively the Empress Nagako could not serve. She is with child. Therefore the Sublime Emperor, Hirohito Tenno, descendant of the Sun Goddess, promoted to the rank of hostess for a day the gracious Princess Setsu, wife of the Emperor's next older brother and heir, Prince Chichibu. Not so long ago Miss Setsu Matsudaira was a pupil at the Friends (Quaker) School in Washington, D. C.. where her father was until recently Japanese Ambassador. Last week...
Manager R. L. Pollio of the Mayflower tactfully announced that the Curtis rent was "something around $10,000 a year" and added: "We went after the Vice President and Mrs. Gann with the most attractive proposition we could afford. . . . We are glad to have him here. ... It is an honor and, to be perfectly frank, it is worth a lot of money in advertising...