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...Prestes, President-elect of Brazil. At a state dinner in the Pan-American Union President Hoover accorded for the first time full social honors to Mrs. Edward Everett Gann, sister and hostess of Vice President Curtis, by escorting her to the table, seating her at his right. Mrs. Nicholas Longworth, wife of the speaker of the House, who contests title of second lady of the land with Mrs. Gann, absented herself from the function. ¶Hearing from Tokyo that William Cameron Forbes of Boston would be persona grata as U. S. Ambassador to Japan, the President sent Mr. Forbes...
...convention required him to ex press contrition or stand trial for ''bucket shop" gambling (TIME, May 19). He seemed nice lion-bait, so the room was packed with spectators, including Representative George Holden Tinkham of Massachusetts, who accused the Methodist Board of lobbying, and Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth, wife of the Speaker of the House, who regarded the scene through alert lorgnette...
Many a young member of Congress, serving on the Committee on Lighthouses or whatnot, is known only as a Representative, finds in his office his major reputation. Given sufficient ability and re-elections, however, and he may rise to the finance committee, may become a Reed, a Cannon, a Longworth. As with representatives of the People, so with representatives of the Utilities. The head of a small light & power company is a Utility Man, but his name and influence may extend no farther than his city limits. As time passes, however, he may acquire membership on more and more important...
...vote Senators were summoned from the stump and the sick bed. Democrats flayed the House for trying to dictate to the Senate, while Speaker Longworth and other potent Representatives stood along the chamber wall sombrely listening. First to a vote was the Debenture. Result: 43-10-41 in favor of recession. A dozen insurgent Republicans and six pro-tariff Democrats left their parties on this issue...
...Speaker Longworth was last week granted a three-day leave by the House to rest at Aiken, S. C. In his absence Nebraska's Senator Norris proposed the Senate investigate his " discourtesy" by keeping for ten months on his desk without action a Senate proposal to eliminate " lame duck" sessions of Congress...