Word: longworths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...deep-rooted Washington belief is that Mrs. Nicholas ("Princess Alice") Longworth, wife of the Speaker of the House, exercises a potent backstage influence on U. S. politics. When Mrs. Eleanor Medill Patterson (onetime Countess Gizycka) became editrix of William Randolph Hearst's Washington Herald last summer, she attracted notice with a signed front-page declaration to the effect that the only political assistance Mrs. Longworth could render Senate Nominee Ruth Hanna McCormick in Illinois was posing for photographs. It appeared that the Countess was out to explode the "Princess" legend, for business or other reasons. Last week Editor Patterson...
...Tydings, Wisconsin's Elaine, such Congressmen as New York's LaGuardia, Michigan's Clancy. Pennsylvania's Congressman James Montgomery Beck typifies the Constitutional Wet who often subordinates his legal convictions to party loyalty. Silent Wets biding their time to strike a blow are Speaker of the House Nicholas Longworth, Connecticut's Senator Bingham, Pennsylvania's Congressman Graham. New York's Senator Copeland represents the Wet from political expedience who is at heart a Dry. Representative Hamilton Fish Jr. of New York personifies the long-time weasler who slips softly into 4% beer. Referendum Wets awaiting a home vote to guide...
...Agnes Elizabeth Ernst, had become an integral part of the capital's society. Their entertainments were lavish compared to the stylelessness of other Washington parties. Just before her husband's retirement Mrs. Meyer had unsuccessfully attempted to restore social peace between Mrs. Dolly Gann and Mrs. Nicholas Longworth at an elaborate garden fête (TIME...
...without being a prude"; 5) "When the music began the President began to waltz around the room by himself. . . . Uncle Joe [Cannon], though he knew no waltz steps, simply capered around in a sort of ragtime shuffle"; 6) the first cigaret smoked by a U. S. woman (Mrs. Nicholas Longworth) at the White House (Jan. 12, 1910); 7) the whiskey-and-sodas President Taft would press upon amiable guests...
...oppose Speaker Nicholas Longworth, renominated, in the Cincinnati district, Democrats selected John Williams Pattison, son of a onetime Governor of Ohio, wealthy, politically independent. Nominee Pattison, blond, affable, drove a truck in France during the War, later fought the Reds as a captain in the Polish air corps. He still flies, golfs. Speaker Longworth, opposed by Labor as a reactionary, may have to hump himself, for the first time in 15 years, to be returned to Congress...