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Editor Hall's independence is his success. In 1910 Grover went to work as an editorialist on the Advertiser, started his career there by defending Alice Roosevelt Longworth's right to smoke cigarets. Editor of the Advertiser since 1926, Grover Hall won a Pulitzer Prize in 1928 for rousing attacks on racial and religious intolerance...
...Chambrun, a captain of French infantry, is a wiry little man of 33, with the late Nick Longworth for an uncle, a profitable knowledge of the law, both French and American, a host of important connections, a taste for driving too fast in an automobile and an inborn capacity for landing out of any catastrophe on his feet. With all these qualifications, he was unable to do his job for France. Ten days after he arrived in the U. S., at the moment when he was pleading his country's case at a luncheon of the Senate Foreign Affairs...
...Speaker of the House since 1936 has been William Brockman Bankhead of Alabama.* His way of rule was not the harsh tsarism of Joe Cannon (1903-11), the rough-&-tumble domination of Nick Longworth (1925-31). Partly from natural bent, partly of necessity, he used the gentler arts of persuasion, parliamentary device, friendship. His pre-New Deal predecessors had special patronage to dispense, and patronage was power. Franklin Roosevelt took away most of the Speaker's patronage, leaving William Bankhead with no club to hold, no favors to give...
...incessantly through the streets. Senator Robert A. Taft also had elephants (of papier-mache): one in the quiet dignity of his ballroom headquarters at the Benjamin Franklin Hotel, two perched on the marquee outside. Candidate Taft also had 100 rooms for his staff and the support of Alice Roosevelt Longworth, who said, in her best Alice-blue style, "The Willkie campaign comes right from the grass roots of every country club in America...
...following 34 years Willie Hoppe walked 50,000 miles around billiard tables, played against Nicholas Longworth before President Taft, was the butt of quips by Humorist Samuel Clemens, saw Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Jack Dempsey, and other great sport figures pass their peak, fade out of competition...