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...Rockefeller Jr. Insisting that her father never intended to have his collection supplemented by gifts from others, Miss Frick also snorted that the Rockefeller bequests-a Piero della Francesca painting and two marble busts-were either inferior art to start with or damaged. Down in Washington, Alice Roosevelt Longworth, 76, was no less outraged when she heard of a scheme to designate part of a projected Washington cultural center as a memorial to rough-riding Theodore Roosevelt. Mrs. Longworth blasted the plan in tones that sounded like an echo of T.R. himself. Said she: "The hell with the cultural center...
...Speaker Nicholas Longworth purged 13 Republican Congressmen from their important committee assignments as punishment for supporting the presidential candidacy of Progressive Robert La Follette (four Senators, including La Follette himself, were also stripped of their committee rank...
Critique of Reason. Frankfurter has a deserved reputation as a wicked verbal antagonist. Asked his opinion of a grandson of Ralph Waldo Emerson who was serving as Governor General of the Philippines, Frankfurter snapped: "I think Emerson passed through him without stop ping." In crossing blades with Alice Longworth, the daughter of Theodore Roosevelt, Frankfurter said she had all her father's biases. "Why shouldn't I?" Alice Longworth replied. "Your father's a great man and entitled to biases," said Frankfurter...
...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...