Word: longworths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Also a lawyer is José Laval's fiancé, almost forgotten last week in the dither over her dowry. He, aristocratic young Count René de Chambrun, is a nephew of the late, great Nicholas Longworth, a descendant of the Marquis de Lafayette...
Engaged, Marie Jose ("Josette") Laval. 23, attractive only daughter of French Premier Pierre Laval; and Count Rene Aldebert Pineton de Chambrun, 28. descendant of the Marquis de La Fayette, son of General Count Aldebert de Chambrun and the onetime Clara Longworth of Cincinnati, Ohio...
...first one he never had to make another campaign speech in it. So did national politicians who had watched from the inside his quiet march from a Texas greenhorn in 1903 to Speaker of the House in 1931 upon the death of his great & good Republican friend Nicholas Longworth. But Jack Garner, with his love for poker and baseball, his fondness for a good highball with good friends, his habit of going to bed every night at 9 o'clock sharp, did not fit the public concept of an able politician, much less of a great statesman...
...resound from the roof above Bronson Cutting's copper coffin has seldom sat in one church. There were J. P. Morgan* and A. F. of L.'s William Collins, Walter Lippmann and Nicholas Murray Butler, Colonel House and Hiram Johnson, Sir Ronald Lindsay and Norman Thomas, Alice Longworth and Mrs. August Belmont, Joseph H. Choate Jr. and Senator La Follette, the President's mother and Mrs. Eugene Meyer, Senator Vandenberg and Isabella Greenway, soft-spoken Spanish Americans and nasal-twanged Yankees, stockbrokers who dwell on Long Island and politicians who abominate them. All of them had reason...
...Speaker's other arm is Lewis Deschler. "Lew" Deschler is neither a Democrat nor a Representative. He is a young, black-haired Republican who was brought to the House by Speaker Longworth. He sits below and at the right of the Speaker, playing the role of House Parliamentarian. Regardless of politics, he holds his job because he is able to advise the Speaker how to dissolve parliamentary tangles as the Administration wishes them dissolved. He shies at photographers and blushes when he talks but is one of the most important people in the House, the brains which make...