Word: longworth
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...Thomas J. Watson Jr.,* and Labor Secretary Arthur Goldberg, who solved the Met's union contract impasse (TIME, Sept. 8). The grandes dames were out in force-Rose Kennedy, the President's mother; the Castoria heiress Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, and the indomitable Alice Roosevelt Longworth-along with such assorted guests from other fields as Pundit Walter Lippmann, Labor Chief George Meany, Oilman Edwin Pauley, and New York's Mayor Robert Wagner (who played the fiddle as a boy). And, since the party was in honor of Governor Luis Muňoz Marin and his wife, there...
...Rockefeller Jr. Insisting that her father never intended to have his collection supplemented by gifts from others, Miss Frick also snorted that the Rockefeller bequests-a Piero della Francesca painting and two marble busts-were either inferior art to start with or damaged. Down in Washington, Alice Roosevelt Longworth, 76, was no less outraged when she heard of a scheme to designate part of a projected Washington cultural center as a memorial to rough-riding Theodore Roosevelt. Mrs. Longworth blasted the plan in tones that sounded like an echo of T.R. himself. Said she: "The hell with the cultural center...
...Speaker Nicholas Longworth purged 13 Republican Congressmen from their important committee assignments as punishment for supporting the presidential candidacy of Progressive Robert La Follette (four Senators, including La Follette himself, were also stripped of their committee rank...
Critique of Reason. Frankfurter has a deserved reputation as a wicked verbal antagonist. Asked his opinion of a grandson of Ralph Waldo Emerson who was serving as Governor General of the Philippines, Frankfurter snapped: "I think Emerson passed through him without stop ping." In crossing blades with Alice Longworth, the daughter of Theodore Roosevelt, Frankfurter said she had all her father's biases. "Why shouldn't I?" Alice Longworth replied. "Your father's a great man and entitled to biases," said Frankfurter...