Word: longworths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...book for relaxation. The bookshelves, he found, had been stripped bare by his predecessor. Last week the American Bookseller's Association revealed that it had prepared a special 500-volume library to present later this month to the White House. The books were selected by Alice Roosevelt Longworth, wife of the House Speaker, and Douglas S. Watson of San Francisco, father of Mrs. Herbert Hoover...
Paulina, daughter of Speaker Nicholas Longworth of the House of Representatives, granddaughter of the late President Theodore Roosevelt, celebrated her fifth birthday by going to the House gallery for the first time. Noting her appearance, the representatives rose, faced her, applauded. Excited by the tumult, she giggled, clapped back at them, had to be told to drop her hands...
Never point a gun at anyone unless you want to kill hun. "Unloaded" guns are always the ones that go off.-U. S. Folklore. In Washington, three weeks ago, Senator Harry Bartow Hawes of Missouri presented Speaker Nicholas Longworth with a revolver. It had once belonged to Bandit Jesse James and Speaker Longworth amused himself by pointing it at a newspaper photographer who took his picture. In Bay City, Mich., small Nathaniel Conklin saw the picture, showed it to his sister Dorothy, said. "I can do that too. Wait, I'll show you." Nathaniel Conklin then ran upstairs...
Senator Harry Bartow Hawes of Missouri gave Speaker Nicholas Longworth of the House of Representatives a revolver reputed to have belonged to bandit Jesse Woodson James...
...House, members rose and cheered when Representative Howard of Nebraska offered a facetious resolution praising Speaker Longworth for "preserving the prerogatives of the red granite of the legislative against the brownstone of the executive and the ermine marble of the Judiciary." The reference was to the speaker's refusal to accede to President Hoover's wish for a joint committee of Congress to study enforcement administration (TIME, Jan. 20). New York's Representative Oliver, flaying Prohibition, declared the government's policy had "driven liquor from the bar to the boudoir, from the saloon to the salon...