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...many admirers. New York's Snell (Rules Committee) stood behind his aisle table, frowning, sharpening a pencil with a blunt watch chain knife. Leader Tilson beamed at his flock and rearranged neatly typed resolutions on blue paper. The galleries, splotched with color, were long ago overflowing. Mrs. Alice Longworth, the Speaker's wife, was there, incognito, because she failed to remove her brown hat and reveal her gleaming hair...
Suddenly lights flashed on in the glass-paneled ceiling, with theatre footlight effect. Instead of a rising curtain, Speaker Longworth, with jaunty step, mounted the rostrum, struck his gavel twice upon the block and called above the din: "The House will be in order." Opposite him the hands of the big gilt clock exactly met at the top of the dial...
Speaker Nicholas ("Nick") Longworth is the plump and debonair great-grandson of the winemaker in praise of whose golden wedding vintage Poet Longfellow wrote "The Queen of the West."* He is fond of good living, used to hard headwork; serene, humorous, fair to a fault though a faithful partisan. His grandfather collected camel's-hair shawls. He has collected friends. Getting Theodore Roosevelt for a father-in-law was a reward of that same industry and wit by which he attained-and not through the father-in-law-to the chairmanship at the meetings of all the stockholders...
John Quillin Tilson of New Haven, Conn., worked his way through Yale and was graduated the same year (1891) that affluent young "Nick" Longworth emerged from Harvard. A tall, bony Yank, he went to the Spanish War, returned to practice law, worked to the top of his Legislature, reached Congress in 1909. His face is lined like bark, but he does not bite. Conservative, shrewd, popular with serious men, he has cast a long shadow at national conventions...
Isaac ("Ike") Bacharach, smartly dressed, ruddy face, sour externally, pleasant internally, is a banking, realty and lumber tycoon of Atlantic City, N. J. A fine mixer and fixer, he is one of Speaker Longworth's closest friends. Much of the practical brains of the Ways & Means Committee (taxes, tariff) repose within his iron-grey head...