Word: longworths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...slap at insurgency brought a murmur of approval. Alice Roosevelt Longworth, who had been sitting in a box with Mrs. Patrick Jay Hurley, stiffened when her father's name was mentioned for the first & only time during the convention. The Utah delegation applauded when a conference on bimetallism was promised. The oil states held a little parade when high oil tariffs were recommended. The house rang righteously with indignation when Chairman Garfield deplored the burgeoning kidnapping racket. Then the words "the 18th Amendment" were pronounced and the atmosphere electrified...
Speaker Garner's tax speech was the first use of his parliamentary privilege to join in House debate. As Speaker (1925-31) Nicholas Longworth descended the rostrum to address the House from the floor five times on such subjects as the Soldier Bonus, a Big Navy and the "Lame Duck" Amendment. Frederick Huntington Gillett (1919-25) spoke five times. During the eight years of his Speakership (1911-19) Champ Clark took the floor 18 times for regular debate and 45 times when the House was in the Committee of the Whole on the State of the Union. His speeches...
Kurzman to Constable. Since 1905 the 73-year-old specialty shop of Kurzman has been on Fifth Avenue, Manhattan. From it have gone many notable trousseaus. The White House bridal gear of Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Mrs. Eleanor Wilson McAdoo, Mrs. Jessie Wilson Sayre and the second Mrs. Woodrow Wilson were from Kurzman...
...revealed that when Ethel Barrymore appeared in Washington in The School for Scandal, Senator Frederic Collin Walcott of Connecticut invited her and Alice Roosevelt Longworth to luncheon, forgot to appear...
...Marie Sterner, a lady of impeccable taste, was proof that the portraits of the Sisters de Hellebranth are worthy of serious consideration. Among the sitters who have had to choose between their canvases are Admiral Horthy, Regent of Hungary; Cardinal Seredi; Countess Laszlo (Gladys Vanderbilt) Szechenyi; Mrs. Nicholas Longworth and her daughter Paulina; Senator William Edgar Borah. After just deliberation Mrs. Borah bought Bertha's picture. Mrs. Longworth could not make up her mind, took both...