Word: longworths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Prestes, President-elect of Brazil. At a state dinner in the Pan-American Union President Hoover accorded for the first time full social honors to Mrs. Edward Everett Gann, sister and hostess of Vice President Curtis, by escorting her to the table, seating her at his right. Mrs. Nicholas Longworth, wife of the speaker of the House, who contests title of second lady of the land with Mrs. Gann, absented herself from the function. ¶Hearing from Tokyo that William Cameron Forbes of Boston would be persona grata as U. S. Ambassador to Japan, the President sent Mr. Forbes...
House Vote. In the House the voting was less tense. Speaker Longworth had predicted the measure would be passed at 4 p. m. with a majority of about 70. The vote came at 4 p. m. and the majority was 69 (222 to 153). As the engrossed copy of the bill was handed up to him, Speaker Longworth declared: "The Chair takes great pleasure in signing this bill." Almost in a body, Republican Congressmen rose and cheered...
Speaker Nicholas Longworth...
Alice Roosevelt Longworth won $20 from Senator Henry Justin Allen of Kansas in a bet that Senator David Aiken Reed, of Pennsylvania, wavering, would vote for the new tariff bill...
...convention required him to ex press contrition or stand trial for ''bucket shop" gambling (TIME, May 19). He seemed nice lion-bait, so the room was packed with spectators, including Representative George Holden Tinkham of Massachusetts, who accused the Methodist Board of lobbying, and Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth, wife of the Speaker of the House, who regarded the scene through alert lorgnette...