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...minutes later there were 144 signatures. Representative Isabella Greenway of Arizona, wearing a garnet colored sports dress and a red scarf, wandered in and sat down. Immediately several Representatives went to her, proposed that she take the credit of being the 145th. She pounded a small determined fist on the arm of her chair, said, no, she would not do it for any amount of publicity. A minute or two later, Representative Roy E. Ayres, 200-lb. Congressman from Lewiston. Mont, who has never made a speech in the House, claimed the honor, signed. He was so excited that...
...President's address to the joint session (see p. 14). This piece of misinformation almost deprived Mrs. Roosevelt of a very special pleasure. Just as she was about to leave the galleries with the rest of the spectators, she turned to see her bridesmaid and lifelong friend, Isabella Greenway, take the oath of office as Congresswoman-at-large from Arizona...
Engaged. Robert M. Ferguson. Yale student, son of Arizona's famed Congresswoman Isabella Selmes Ferguson Greenway; and Frances L. Hand, Manhattan socialite...
...peak of the 1929 boom Mrs. Greenway was smart enough to sell out many a copper stock she had inherited from her husband, became one of Arizona's wealthiest widows. She kept, however, her Quarter Circle Double X ranch near Williams. Her home is in Tucson, 50 yards down the street from her famed Arizona Inn. That hostelry came into being as a result of her generous interest in disabled veterans. She supplied the government hospital with tools and machinery for making furniture. When a market for the furniture disappeared, she opened the Arizona Inn and furnished it with...
Silvery-haired Isabella Greenway has a clean outdoor look about her. She uses neither rouge nor lipstick. She is most at home in the saddle. She has an expert eye for cattle. No Roosevelt goes West without stopping off to visit her at Tucson or Williams. An able Democrat, she has been Arizona's national committeewoman since 1928. At the Chicago convention last year she seconded the Roosevelt nomination and had a large hand in engineering the McAdoo switch. Her House seat will be her first public office...