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...legatee add Chatfield to his last name. Hobart Chatfield Taylor thereupon became Hobart Chatfield Chatfield-Taylor, distinguishing himself by writing books (The Idle Born, Fame's Pathway), collecting a large number of decorations from foreign governments, and becoming the butt of some of the late Speaker Nicholas Longworth's best jokes. Wayne Chatfield Taylor, his eldest son, who repudiates his father's lucrative hyphen, played on Yale's football team in 1915, held a job in Charles G. Dawes's late bank, for a time was a partner in Chicago's Field, Glore...
...began making dull speeches on all public occasions. Punctilious in his role as the Capital's No. 1 diner-out, he allowed his exuberant half-sister and official hostess to make a finish fight of her war for social precedence with the Speaker's lady, Alice Roosevelt Longworth. "Call me Mr. Vice President," he commanded his oldtime friends...
From retirement the Warrior was now returning to the war, mounted on a strange charger known as the American Liberty League and surrounded by such unfamiliar lieutenants as Banker Winthrop Aldrich, ex-Senator David A. Reed, Steelman Ernest T. Weir, Politicalite Alice Longworth...
...quotation, leaving no doubt whatever that Roosevelt I, like a Christian before Christ, had blessed the New Deal 20 years before its birth. Listening in silence on the platform and in reserved seats below, sat a phalanx of Roosevelt I's descendants, good Republicans all. including Alice Longworth. But the only rebuke offered by the children of Roosevelt I to Roosevelt II was made by Theodore Roosevelt Jr. who, in the course of personal anecdotes, smilingly remarked that those who had just said such kind things of his father "were not on the same side of the fence with...
...first cousin miles removed from Mrs. Roosevelt in temperament, ideas and political attachments is Alice Roosevelt Longworth, daughter of Roosevelt I, relict of the late Speaker of the House Nicholas Longworth. This week that acid-tongued, political kibitzer, who generally gets credit for most wisecracks uttered in Washington, was put forward by McNaught Syndicate as successor to its late great Will Rogers. Appearing in some 100 newspapers, Alice Longworth's brief daily comment is served hot by telegraph to most subscribers. First sample...