Word: states
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Vice President stated that the question of the seating of his hostess, Mrs. Edward Everett Gann, at official dinners is not settled. He has notified the Secretary of State, Mr. Stimson, of his dissatisfaction "with the action of the former Secretary, Mr. Kellogg, and has asked for a reversal of it. . . . The Vice President feels that he is not bound by Mr. Kellogg's conclusion and has protested to Mr. Stimson...
...State Department went into a stew. Statesman Stimson hemmed, hawed, temporized. President Hoover asked the Vice President and the Ganns to dinner at the White House and escorted Mrs. Gann into the state dining room himself, with Mr. Gann bringing up the rear. But this meant nothing because present were no foreign diplomats' wives to point the issue of precedence. The question of a seat for Mrs. Gann-and Mr. Gann-was all-balled-up. Washington society buzzed like a happy beehive...
...sets of society exist in Washington-official and unofficial. Officialdom provides the actors. Unofficialdom provides the stages-mostly dining-room and drawing-room scenes-the choruses, the expert managers. The State Department is the prompter, furnishing cues for the actors' entrances and exits...
When U. S. officials dine out, they do so by their titles, not their names. Thus, invitations and dinner cards say: "The Secretary of State and Mrs. Stimson," or the Chief of Staff and Mrs. Summerall." This formula appears truly remarkable when applied, down the line, to "the Chief of the Oil, Fat and Wax Division of the Department of Agriculture, & Mrs. Jones...
...with his Tennessee friend, John H. Eaton. In January, 1829, Eaton married Peggy. On March 4, Jackson became President and appointed Eaton his Secretary of War. Washington society turned fiercely upon Mrs. Eaton, refused to accept her, slandered her morals. President Jackson took her side, as did Secretary of State Van Buren. Van Buren and Eaton resigned from the Cabinet as a protest, Van Buren becoming President later, thanks to Jackson's support, which he gained largely in the Peggy Eaton case...