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...Partakers of the President's breakfast last week were Senators Borah, Fess, Hale, Oddie, Gillett, Shortridge, Dale, Moses, Goff and Williams. All are Republicans. Their attention is reported to have been centred on the food to the exclusion of legislative matters...
...President would make no speeches in the interest of any candidates for election next fall, except that he might go to Massachusetts to aid Senator Butler, his close friend and political associate, who faces a stiff contest with onetime Senator David Ignatius Walsh (Democrat), who was unseated by Mr. Gillett two years...
...remind you of a pompous schoolmaster is Hiram Johnson. He used to be a rip-roaring Progressive Republican. He still votes with them, but he seems to be an extinct volcano. The old gentleman there, with a kindly face-no, not that one; he is Frederick Gillett, who used to be Speaker of the House and has now retired to the dignified bosom of the Senate as a reward for his long and faithful labor in the Republican cause. The other one farther back is Senator Cummins, who used to be a Progressive Republican...
...annual Congressional Reception was held at the White House, drawing a great concourse of legislators, among them Speaker Longworth, Senator (onetime Speaker) Gillett, Senator Butler, Senator Deneen, Senator Pepper, Senator Stanfield, Senator McKinley, Senator Gerry, Senator Phipps and many more, with their ladies. After the President and first lady retired to the second floor, there was dancing in the East Room...
...George B. Churchill, 59, U. S. Congressman-elect from Massachusetts; in Amherst, Mass., of ulcers of the stomach. He graduated from Amherst College two years before Calvin Coolidge entered as a Freshman. He was a professor of English Literature at Amherst when elected, last November, to succeed Frederick H. Gillett, who was elected Senator. He had not as yet taken his seat in the House...