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...news photographs: 20-month-old Winston Churchill II striding boldly along a London street on a visit from the country was like a miniature edition of his famed grandfather. The young "Princess Alice" Roosevelt of the early 1900s reappeared in a picture of her daughter, Paulina Longworth, now suddenly a young lady of 17 making her debut...
...together in Italy, Russia and the U.S., where Laval hobnobbed with Herbert Hoover at the White House. Through daughter Jose, Laval reached into French aristocracy. Jose married young Rene de Chambrun, son of the onetime French Ambassador to Italy, descendant of Xa-fayette, nephew by marriage of Alice Roosevelt Longworth. Through the De Chambruns, Laval met Marshal Petain. Laval eventually rose so high as to be made a Papal Count...
...them are now on Massachusetts Avenue, where in the space of a few blocks stand 14 embassies and legations. Notable remaining Massachusetts Avenue mansions: the unused town house of Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles, the four-story house of the President's fifth cousin Alice Longworth, the red-brick mansion of the famed Misses Patten, who once entertained the Prince of Wales, the King of Belgium...
...Shoes were reduced to two types and to black, white, tan. Manufacture of pleasure automobiles was to cease. Housing had stopped dead. In another year the whole civil population would have been clothed in a cheap but serviceable sort of uniform. Flaps from pockets would have disappeared. At Alice Longworth's recommendation, steel had been taken out of women's corsets. There were gasless, meatless, sugarless, fuelless days. And the nation's cartoonists played day in & out with a colorful character named High Cost of Living...
...Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies-had 60,000 members, eleven local chapters and an organization drive that was going like a house afire. In Washington, national committee members included such strange company as socially conscientious Kathryn Lewis (daughter of John L.) and socially conspicuous Alice Roosevelt Longworth. Just what the organization was after remained obscure: it was easier to see what it was against than what it was for. And what the committee was against was getting the U. S. into the war. General Wood last week adduced some further arguments to the National Association of Manufacturers...