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...Alice Roosevelt Longworth." No one could doubt his individuality and independence after 1912, when he refused to follow his father-in-law into the Bull Moose Party and was roundly trounced for re-election to the House. He went back to Congress two years later, was chosen the 40th Speaker in 1925. That year too his only child, Paulina, was born in Chicago. Said Longworth on first viewing his tiny daughter: "She looks more like a Roosevelt than a Longworth, but she's young...
Died. Nicholas Longworth, 61, 40th Speaker of the U. S. House of Representatives; of pneumonia; in Aiken...
From the office of brusque Minister of Interior Béla de Scitovszky de Nagyker went forth last week a general decree:"No woman who has not attained her 40th birthday shall be employed as a chambermaid in any hotel in the Kingdom of Hungary...
Sometimes crawling at a walking pace along the narrow, level path past the cots, sometimes swooping at 30 m. p. h. around the steep sides of the great bowl built of spruce boards in Madison Square Garden, bicycle riders raced in the 40th International Six-Day Race. Old Reggie MacNamara, a champion twelve years ago and still strong though no longer fast, was entered; so was big, blond, popular Charles Winter; Gaetano Belloni's wild mane of crinkly hair pushed out above his handlebars. The crowds, always emphatically Italian in Manhattan, cheered Linari & Binda, billed as an imported road...
...York, Dry Congressman Dempsey was defeated by a Wet in the 40th District. Two Wets were nominated in the 25th District when Dry Representative Wainwright retired. Representative Fish shifted to beer while Representative Hancock (35th District) and Cooke (41st District) changed from Dry to Wet to save their political skins in the primary. Gain...