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Intimations of trouble came when the Senate Ladies Luncheon Club elected Mrs. Senator Moses of New Hampshire to succeed Mrs. Vice President Dawes as their chief, instead of Mr. Gann's wife who, as sister of the widower Vice President-Elect, had already begun to function as the latter's official hostess (TIME...
Then, on March 4, Mrs. Gann rode to the capitol with Mrs. Charles Gates Dawes, only to find no Senate gallery seat reserved for her. Herbert Hoover Jr. gave her his seat. On that occasion Mr. Gann rode alone to the Capitol at the tag-end of the procession. Nobody gave up a seat...
...last week, life had become acutely distressing for Mr. Gann as he observed that a major social war was whirling horribly about his wife, in highest, mightiest circles. Vice President Curtis had notified Secretary of State Kellogg that Mrs. Gann was his hostess and that, as such, she should have the full rank of the Vice President's lady in the complex social scheme of official Washington. Secretary Kellogg had ruled that Mrs. Gann could not rate on the level of the Vice President but below the wives of the Chief Justice, the Speaker, the Secretary of State...
...Anne Squire, who had written: "Sisters . . . of an official take no precedence whatever. Even when they act as hostesses for the head of a family, they are, except in his house, deprived of the rank of wife." To all Embassies and Legations had gone this Kellogg ruling on Mrs. Gann...
There the matter had stood until Easter morning when a large breakfast was given by Mr. and Mrs. Edward Beale McLean at "Friendship," their handsome suburban home on the northwest fringe of Washington. To it went, with many another high U. S. official, Vice President Curtis and Mrs. Gann. Mr. Gann also went. He knew that Mr. McLean publishes the Washington Post and the Cincinnati Enquirer; that he was a bosom friend of President Harding; that he had "gone down the line" for Albert Bacon Fall, during the oil scandals; that his wife owns but rarely wears the Hope Diamond...