Word: vice
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Longworth v. Gann. Without warning, armistice ceased in the war against Mrs. Edward Everett Gann as "official hostess" to her brother, Vice President Curtis (TIME, April 15, et seq.). This time the combat moved into front-line trenches as the lady of the Speaker of the House pitted herself against the lady of the President of the Senate...
Eugene Meyer Jr. was retiring as head of the Federal Farm Loan Board. A farewell dinner was in order. Mrs. Meyer ingeniously devised a system of four tables to circumvent the troublesome question of Precedence. She would head one table, Mr. Meyer another, Vice President Curtis a third, Mrs. Gann a fourth...
...Roosevelt Longworth, onetime "Princess Alice" of the White House. Great is Mrs. Longworth's political prestige, great her social power, independent her behavior. She sent Mrs. Meyer her regrets, making it clear that she declined to sit below Mrs. Gann. Not to be outdone, Mrs. Gann and the Vice President, likewise stayed at home that evening...
...spite of the unusual nature of the main item on the business of the meeting there was found time to hold the annual election of officers. G. W. Harrington '30 was chosen president of the Council for the coming year. J. K. Hurd '30 was elected vice-president, and S. G. Silverman '30 was chosen secretary...
Perhaps a good part of the public is somewhat surprised to learn of all the important privileges attached to the office of Vice President. Holders of this position in recent years have come into fame in considerable measure because of their colorful language and their discovery that "what this country needs is a good five cent cigar." If the present incident indicates the social prerogatives of this second highest honor of our democracy, it also shows that in the land of equal opportunity where any native may aspire to the Presidency, none but the legal spouse of the Vice President...