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Plenary Session. Before Curtis had even settled into his new eminence, however, Dolly's social status became a hot issue. Her opponents argued that, in the absence of President Hoover's wife, top rank at the dinner table belonged to Alice Roosevelt Longworth, wife of Speaker of the House Nicholas Longworth and daughter of Teddy Roosevelt. Official hostess or not, they declared, Dolly was only the Vice President's sister, and should sit below the wives of foreign ambassadors. The leaders of this school of thought were the Longworths...
...Seton Hall and the Catholic University of America. The Army tapped him a year later and sent him to Jamaica, where he got his first taste of administration by running a laundry. In 1946, he joined the Veteran's Administration. A series of Washington jobs followed, ending with a Hoover Commission assignment that in ended long interviews with James Forrestal...
...Mamie provided a show within a show. Mamie, sharing a lap robe with Herbert Hoover, smiled and applauded the corniest floats, and when the Purdue University Glee Club serenaded her with the love song of the Chicago sound wagons, Mamie, What a Wonderful Name for the First Lady of the Land, she jumped up and blew kisses. The President stood soldierlike through it all (he spurned the easy way, a concealed stool used by Harry Truman four years ago). He stood at solemn attention for every passing flag, and whenever a contingent of marching women came by, he gallantly doffed...
Concerning his plans for the future Truman remained noncommittal. Last week he turned down at least two jobs paying $100,000 a year or more because he didn't want to cheapen the presidency by trading on his name. "I think Herbert Hoover has handled himself perfectly," said Harry. Closest to his heart was his plan to establish a Truman memorial library and research center on the family farm in Grandview, but that would have to wait until the Truman Library Fund had raised $1,500,000-a goal it was still far from reaching. Later...
Died. Douglas Chandor, 55, wealthy portraitist of the high-ranked and highborn; of a cerebral hemorrhage in Weatherford, Texas. British-born Artist Chandor painted the Prince of Wales (now Duke of Windsor), Queen Marie of Rumania, President Hoover and his Cabinet, President Roosevelt (in 1935 and again a month before his death), Eleanor Roosevelt (the only painting she ever permitted), Winston Churchill (bought by Bernard Baruch for $25,000, plus a sketch of the artist by the posing Churchill), Queen Elizabeth and some 300 others...