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...private luncheon given by Editor Julian Starkweather Mason of the New York Evening Post, Alfred Emanuel Smith and Alice Roosevelt Longworth...
...their talk concerned the Democratic Convention scene, which they both witnessed, in which William Gibbs McAdoo swung the California and Texas delegations from Garner to Roosevelt. Reported the New York Times: ''Some of those present said that, despite their traditional political differences, Mr. Smith and Mrs. Longworth found themselves in complete harmony in their views of Mr. McAdoo. . . . Mrs. Longworth said . . . that she thought the former Governor was 'a grand...
...slap at insurgency brought a murmur of approval. Alice Roosevelt Longworth, who had been sitting in a box with Mrs. Patrick Jay Hurley, stiffened when her father's name was mentioned for the first & only time during the convention. The Utah delegation applauded when a conference on bimetallism was promised. The oil states held a little parade when high oil tariffs were recommended. The house rang righteously with indignation when Chairman Garfield deplored the burgeoning kidnapping racket. Then the words "the 18th Amendment" were pronounced and the atmosphere electrified...
Speaker Garner's tax speech was the first use of his parliamentary privilege to join in House debate. As Speaker (1925-31) Nicholas Longworth descended the rostrum to address the House from the floor five times on such subjects as the Soldier Bonus, a Big Navy and the "Lame Duck" Amendment. Frederick Huntington Gillett (1919-25) spoke five times. During the eight years of his Speakership (1911-19) Champ Clark took the floor 18 times for regular debate and 45 times when the House was in the Committee of the Whole on the State of the Union. His speeches...
Kurzman to Constable. Since 1905 the 73-year-old specialty shop of Kurzman has been on Fifth Avenue, Manhattan. From it have gone many notable trousseaus. The White House bridal gear of Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Mrs. Eleanor Wilson McAdoo, Mrs. Jessie Wilson Sayre and the second Mrs. Woodrow Wilson were from Kurzman...