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...desk of the journal clerk. Day after day Representatives sidled up to the desk and signed. When 113 names were on the list Democratic Leader Byrns gloomily prophesied the total number would be reached. When the list neared 140 Speaker Rainey, who cannot control the House as Speakers Longworth and Garner used to do, paid a hurried visit to the White House, returned with the announcement: "I am authorized by the President to say this is not the time to pay the bonus and he cannot approve any legislation to that effect...
...President Roosevelt's town house at No. 49 East 65th St. from $170,000 to $165,000. ¶ The President and Mrs. Roosevelt held the fourth of their state receptions for officials of government departments. Among the guests who arrived in a snow storm was Mrs. Nicholas Longworth. She had on a set of gold Hindu earrings in the shape of cornucopias, a red-gold chain about her neck from which dangled a green-gold frog fashioned by the Chiriqui Indians...
...enjoying the bright book by "Princess Alice" (TIME, Nov. 6). Mrs. Longworth's description of her famous father was the best recorded...
...hope the smaller bracelet sent to Mrs. Longworth's wedding is less ugly than the one I saw at so close range...
Asked at a Washington party. "Why haven't we heard more from you?'', President Roosevelt's Republican fifth cousin Alice Roosevelt Longworth replied. "I am trying terribly hard to be impartial and malevolent at the same time...