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Married. Paulina Longworth, 19, granddaughter of T.R., only daughter of the late Congressman Nicholas and Alice Roosevelt Longworth; and Alexander McCormick Sturm, 21, precocious humorist and book-illustrator (The Problem Fox, From Ambush to Zig-Zag); in Manchester-by-the-Sea, Mass...
...name was that of Theodore Dubois, 33, private in Canada's Home Defense Army. The club's president, zealous Captain Roy Longworth Byron, assistant to Canada's director of army recruiting, had written to Dubois suggesting that he volunteer for overseas service so that there would be no "blackout" on the club's honor roll. Dubois had stood on his rights (Canada gives its draftees a choice between overseas and home-defense service) and refused...
Once the rigid rules were broken, Speakers were forced to wield power by tact, persuasion and favors. "Nick" Longworth kept a firm grip on the House through shrewd committee maneuvers; Texas' Jack Garner held sway by means of his long seniority and experience...
Flautist's Kampf. Among many prominent Pierians was first violin Nicholas Longworth (also member of the Porcellian Club), later Speaker of the House of Representatives. At the same time (1890) Liberal Journalist Oswald Garrison Villard (also member of the Deutscher Verein) played second fiddle...
Matriarch of social Washington is Mrs. J. Borden ("Daisy") Harriman, former Envoy to Norway, whose small parties are still so choice that even Donald Nelson accepts invitations to them. Highly prized also, particularly by socially minded newcomers to Washington, are the cozy little dinners given by "Princess Alice" Longworth...