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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...
Margaret Truman was 21 and marriageable-the first marriageable White House daughter in more than a quarter of a century. Gossip columnists hopefully reminded their readers of the wooing and winning of T.R.'s daughter Alice by Nicholas Longworth, and the marriages of the Wilsons, father & daughters. They noticed, and noted in their syndicated columns, every young man Margaret saw more than once...
...part the Anderson Bridge must play will be a difficult one--unrewarding, steady, and dull. It is our guess, however, that the old bridge will meet its new role with calm dignity. And if perchance, the structure should someday sink into the muddy depths of the Charles, the Nicholas Longworth Anderson Bridge will still stand as a symbol a symbol of many things to many...