Word: longworths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rayburn dislikes the name, which was given to the sessions by Texas' John Nance Garner, who, as a House member, used to signal Speaker Nicholas Longworth each afternoon that it was time to "strike a blow for liberty." Explained Garner: "You know, you get a couple of drinks in a young Congressman, and then you know what he can do. We pay the tuition by supplying the liquor...
...wedding reception for Alice Roosevelt Longworth in 1906, the caterer used the President's fame as a hunter as the theme for his table decorations. He dressed little bears in oudoor togs and placed them in various poses around the banquet tables. When the President said that even he as a bear expert could not name the breed, a guest said, "Well, let's call them Teddy bears." The following year the Steiff factory in Giengen, West Germany sold nearly 1,000,000 Teddy bears in America alone, and prosperity of the tiny hamlet where the factory...
Died. Paulina Longworth Sturm, 31, granddaughter of President Theodore Roosevelt, much-publicized onetime Valentine Day baby of Speaker of the House (1925-31) Nicholas Longworth and T.R.'s daughter Alice Roosevelt Longworth; apparently after an overdose of sleeping pills, five years after the death of her husband. Author-Artist Alexander McCormick Sturm; in Washington...
Poor Prophets. Ike's decision made some newsmen seem poor prophets. Notable example: U.P.'s Merriman Smith, who had staunchly insisted in stories that Ike would not run. A week after Ike's heart attack Columnist Joseph Alsop bet Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth what he warily described as "a substantial sum" that the President would not run again. He gave her 100-to-1 odds. "Then things looked better," said Alice Longworth, "and Joe tried to buy the bet back. Well, he couldn't do that, so he got me to reduce...
Mirroring the ancestral profile, Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth, 60, posed proudly for a picture with a bust of her father, Theodore Roosevelt, after its formal unveiling at the Hall of Fame on the greening campus of New York University...