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...Speaker Bankhead returned to Washington better equipped than he was last year for the rigors of a job that can be as rigorous as any in the land. Speaker Bankhead's hobby is collecting gavels used by his predecessors, of which he has six, belonging to Speakers Clark, Gillett, Longworth, Garner, Rainey, Byrns. Although his own is the smallest of the lot, Administration leaders were hoping last week that it would not prove the least effective...
Died. Frederick Huntington Gillett, 83, onetime (1925-31) U. S. Senator from Massachusetts, onetime (1915-25) Speaker of the House, longtime (32 years) Representative; of leukemia; in Springfield, Mass...
...Huntington Hotel by surprise. The hotel decided to issue scrip negotiable within its walls for tips, cigars, newspapers, cosmetics, haircuts. Among those who lined up at the cashier's window to get their scrip: onetime Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg, onetime Speaker of the House Frederick Huntington Gillett, Banker Henry G. Lapham of Boston, Edward Bausch (& Lomb), President William G, Stuber of Eastman Kodak Co., onetime President Charles Doran of Sperry Gyroscope Co., John Hays Hammond, Packer Edward A. Cudahy Jr., Princess Erik of Denmark, Banker Albert E. Nettleton, Louis B. Kuppenheimer (clothes), Dr. Arthur Dean Bevan (Chicago...
...Poverty, What is the smallest amount of food which will keep a person healthy in poverty? Dietitians thought this list, offered by Lucy Gillett of Manhattan, sufficient...
...speech was the first use of his parliamentary privilege to join in House debate. As Speaker (1925-31) Nicholas Longworth descended the rostrum to address the House from the floor five times on such subjects as the Soldier Bonus, a Big Navy and the "Lame Duck" Amendment. Frederick Huntington Gillett (1919-25) spoke five times. During the eight years of his Speakership (1911-19) Champ Clark took the floor 18 times for regular debate and 45 times when the House was in the Committee of the Whole on the State of the Union. His speeches produced much applause with members...