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Through the door of the Presidential suite in Washington's Hotel Willard one afternoon last week peeped a lady with the reputation of being the wisest of her clan ?Alice Roosevelt Longworth. Beside her peeped pretty Mrs. Patrick Jay Hurley, wife of the Secretary...
...subject of great banter between the late Nicholas Longworth and John Nance Garner was the fine limousine supplied to the Speaker of the House (TIME, Nov. 17, 1930). Last year's car was transferred to the Senate and the Treasury was prepared to buy a brand new one for Speaker Garner. Last week the blunt little Texan announced...
...retrieved by worried relatives. Theodore and Alice were married in Brookline four months after his graduation (Oct. 27, 1880). They traveled abroad. He got into politics, went to Albany. On Feb. 12, 1884 was born their first and only child who was someday to become Mrs. Nicholas Longworth. Writes Biographer Pringle: ''Roosevelt came in. ... He found his wife barely able to recognize him, and all that night he sat at the head of the bed and held her in his arms. Just before 3 o'clock in the morning his mother, who had developed typhoid fever, died and Theodore, standing...
...Ohio (Cincinnati) was the district which the late great Nicholas Longworth held for many a happy year. Speaker Longworth used to carry it effort lessly by 20,000 Republican votes. Last year, hard pressed by an aggressive young Democrat, he humped himself energetically, squeaked through with only 3,500 votes to spare. To succeed him and maintain the honor of "the Speaker's district'' Cincinnati Republicans nominated John Baker Hollister. Like Speaker Longworth, Nominee Hollister is a shining socialite of good old family, a Harvardman, a cultured and urbane gentleman. His law partners are the sons of President Taft...
...pockets he found that his devout wife had armed him with a Bible text: "The spirit of the Lord watches over you and keeps you in perfect safety." Then he went over to the dismantled office of his old friend and political enemy, the late Speaker Nicholas Longworth of Ohio. He took one look at the room where he may sit after Dec. 7. remarked that it did not look the same "with Nick gone," put on his dinner coat and a taffy-colored fedora hat, went to the White House. At this point neither he nor anyone save...