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...February. An unexpected guest on that cruise, it developed last week, would be Kermit Roosevelt, son of the late President, fifth cousin of the President-elect. Thus was seen a patch-up between the Republican and Democratic branches of the Roosevelt family. An ardent Hooverite, Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth wrote a note of congratulation to fifth Cousin Franklin shortly after his election. Last week Mrs. Longworth was reported going proudly about Washington, exhibiting a reply which began "My dear Alice" and ended "Affectionately, Frank...
...white-maned Majority Leader. Their intraparty contest was the essence of politics and each is a consummate politician. By tradition the leader of a House majority succeeds to the Speakership. That is how John Nance Garner, now Vice President-elect, reached the rostrum and. before him, the late Nicholas Longworth.* This tradition prompted Representative Rainey to declare last month: "I think I'm in line for the Speakership. My chances are excellent." Ingredients- Aside from House custom the main ingredients of the Rainey candidacy are : 1) a rallying point for Northern Democrats tired of seeing all the party plums...
...also numbered the happy days of big, buxom, buoyant Dolly Curtis Gann as Second Lady of the Land. From a modest vine-clad house in Cleveland Park she had risen to queen it over Washington society. The nation's snickers at her battle for precedence over Alice Roosevelt Longworth, the late Speaker's wife, had left her unabashed. She it was who kept her brother Charlie's backbone stiff in demanding every honor due the Vice President. She had come to fancy herself as a political spellbinder and G.O.P. headquarters found her services really useful among women...
...second time before the sun set and they had to be taken down again. After a drive through flagless streets, Secretary Adams snapped: "If Roosevelt is elected the homes and lives of 100,000,000 American people might be in jeopardy." By radio from Cincinnati Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth delivered an anti-Roosevelt speech which she had written out in longhand. The Democratic campaign based on "distress and discontent" struck her as "an unusually ignoble policy." Said T. R.'s first child: "I've seen many instances of unfairness in political campaigns but the effort of the Democratic...
...Longworth was also at pains to deflate another "odd legend,"namely, that she is potent politically: "It all amounts to little more than the old sport of lion hunting...