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...Washington widow, for the wife of a New York surgeon and for the Dean of Bryn Mawr College, the Washington society news was nostalgic last week. Alice Roosevelt (Longworth) in 1902, Ethel Roosevelt (Derby) in 1908 and Helen Taft (Manning) in 1910 were the last three girls to "come out" in the White House. Last week that mansion was again turned upside down for a debut. The lucky girl was Eleanor Roosevelt, niece of Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt-daughter of her brother Grade Hall Roosevelt by his first wife, now Mrs. John Cutter of Dedham, Mass. She had already...
...Speaking of purges, I've been thoroughly purged. In Congress in 1924 I was taken off all my committees, but I didn't whine about it. I told Nick Longworth that if he wouldn't let me attend his caucuses I wouldn't let him attend mine, and I'd hold mine in a telephone booth. " His standard crack whenever Presidential 1940 was mentioned: "I couldn't even rate a gallery seat in either party convention...
Alice Roosevelt Longworth, daughter of Roosevelt I and widow of Speaker Nicholas Longworth, who has made talk but has never made speeches, announced that next fall she would tour the U. S. lecturing on "The American People and the American Government...
...history much more indelibly than President Polk. As Speaker- the title is derived from the ancient custom of the House of Commons which, voteless, sent a member to the King to speak for them-men like Henry Clay, James G. Elaine, Joseph Cannon, Champ Clark and Nicholas Longworth have used their authority so effectively as to give the job a lively tradition of being second in importance only to the Presidency itself. Since the departure to the Senate of John Nance Garner the speakership has suffered a woeful decline in prestige. Old Henry T. Rainey and gangling Joe Byrns, Speaker...
...Bankhead returned to Washington better equipped than he was last year for the rigors of a job that can be as rigorous as any in the land. Speaker Bankhead's hobby is collecting gavels used by his predecessors, of which he has six, belonging to Speakers Clark, Gillett, Longworth, Garner, Rainey, Byrns. Although his own is the smallest of the lot, Administration leaders were hoping last week that it would not prove the least effective...