Word: longworths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Theodore Roosevelt was discussing the marriage of his daughter to Nicholas Longworth, he confided boastfully to a perplexed Kaiser Wilhelm that he and Nick had both belonged to the Porc. At that time, Roosevelt was not alone in considering membership an important qualification for a son-in-law. Boston mothers, on the prowl for young gentlemen eligible for debutante dances, turned to the clubs to provide them. And The Institute of 1770 even had ranking within itself: the first seventy or eighty elected to it from each class were termed Dickeys, from the name of a secret society D.K.E...
Plenary Session. Before Curtis had even settled into his new eminence, however, Dolly's social status became a hot issue. Her opponents argued that, in the absence of President Hoover's wife, top rank at the dinner table belonged to Alice Roosevelt Longworth, wife of Speaker of the House Nicholas Longworth and daughter of Teddy Roosevelt. Official hostess or not, they declared, Dolly was only the Vice President's sister, and should sit below the wives of foreign ambassadors. The leaders of this school of thought were the Longworths...
...Friends. By this time the "Gann-Longworth feud" was one of the nation's prime concerns. When it became known that Dolly would make her first appearance as Second Lady of the Land at a dinner to be given by Chilean Ambassador Carlos Dávila, citizens who wanted to witness her hour of triumph bid $100 for an invitation to the party. Finally, at 8:00 p.m. on April 11, 1929, buxom (180 Ibs.) Dolly Gann took the arm of diminutive (100 Ibs.) Carlos Dávila and marched to the head of the table. Alice Roosevelt Longworth...
...Gann's star, but it did not break her spirit. She campaigned for Landon in 1936, spent much of her energy and determination on the Red Cross and Salvation Army. When her beloved Republicans finally came back to power in Washington last month, she served along with Alice Longworth, now 68, on Ike's inaugural reception committee. Last week 8 7-year-old Dolly Gann died of a sudden heart attack. Alice Longworth, looking back sentimentally over the years, was "very distressed" at the news. Dolly, she said, was "an old, old friend...
...proper disposition of Mr. Gann was also moot. Asked whether he must be invited to all the functions which Dolly attended, Alice Longworth reportedly said: "Mr. Gann's place is in the home." After Dolly's victory, Nebraska's late Senator George Norris, friend of the underprivileged, said: "I had the impression all along that Mrs. Gann would get what she wanted. Mr. Gann, however, is left wholly unprovided for-which is exactly as I feared. I refuse to abandon him in this crisis. I do not intend to let this matter rest until I am assured...