The Washington times., 1937-01-16

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thereby giving 'ohN l. LEWIS
industrialists the blind staggers,
was the one person Mrs. Myron c.
Taylor, of New York, wife of the
head of the United States Steel
Corporation, wanted to meet in the
Capital.
Mrs. Taylor glanced across the
Hotel Mayflower lobby yesterday
and saw Mr.. Lewis. She said to
her husband, "'Do bring him over,
I'd like to get acquainted"
The wife of the organizer of the
first billion dollar industry in
America and the man who, once a
miner, is now one of the most i'm
portant labor figures in the world,
got on happily.
Mr.. Lewis was not the ogre Mrs.
Taylor expected him to be. He
was suave, highly intelligent,
forceful. Different looking. He
has square shoulders, thick black
hair and sharp eyes.
The conversation was light
hearted until Mrs. Taylor asked:
"Are you BolShevik?" John Lewis
didn't like that.
Mr.. Taylor, by the way, is big,
confident. His rebelliouS grey hair
brushed back in pompadour. He
looks like he was born sitting at
the head of a directors table. Any.
where you saw him, you'd say:
'Who is that man?"
Mrs. Taylor is delightful. She Is
impulsive and friendly. Tall and
slender, with a lot of zip. She was
dramatic at the last White House
dinner in changeable gold and
green lame made with a gay little
Jacket. Her short evening wrap
was of sable.
The American Ambassador to
Brazil and Mrs. Hugh Gibson are
in Washington for a fortnight's
holiday and the Inauguration.
They landed in New York on the
Rex on Tuesday and took the first
train down to be the guests of
Col. Edwin M. Watson, military
aide to President Roosevelt, and
Mrs. Watson at the Kennedy-War'
rem.
Ambassador and Mrs. Gibson
have spent the greater part of the
last two months in the air. Mr..
Gibson has flown back and for.
ward from the BuenoS Aires Con-
ference and dashed around the
European capitals by air routes.
Mrs. Gibson crossed the ocean
from Rio de Janiero to Frankfort.
Germany, on the Zeppelin Hinden.
burg, She said she never had a
more comfortable crossing. Com
Portable berth, good food and a
nice feeling of relaxation. And
she wasn't at all sick.
Representative Lister Hill, of
Alabama, sat beside Mrs. Gibson
at dinner at the White House. He
tried to decide from the agreeable
accent of her voice and a certain
piquancy of feature what her ma.
tionality might be. Finally he
guessed, "Citizen of the World!"
"Quite right" laughed Mrs.
Gibson. 'My mother was Span
iSh, my father Belgian. / was
born in France, educated in Eng
land and married an American"
On special state occasions Mrs.
Gibson wears two small foreign
medals, decorations from the Bel.
gian government and the Vatican
for extraordinary service during
the World War.
Mrs. Gibson is a cousin of Bel
gian Ambassador Count van den
Straten-Ponthoz.
Major and Mrs. Robert Y. Dan
1el, who dined with the President
on Thursday, have one of the 70
mantle country estates in Virginia
where country estates thrive
Their place, Lower Brandon, is on
the James River. It has thrilling
lockwood, majestic old trees, zoe
years Of historic tradition ano
present good fortune in ownership
Major and Mrs. Daniel have q
new baby. Also a new son-in-law
Major Daniel now a member of the
State legislature, probably will be
the next lieutenant governor Of
Virginia.
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Mrs. Robert Worth Bingham
wife of the American Ambassador
to England. who has been at hel
home in Louisville recently, came
to Washington Thursday to tall
about her pet enterprise, the res
toration of Stratford, the Lee Man
sion in Virginia.
Mrs. Bingham lunched with Mrs
Breckenridge Long, wife of the
former American Ambassador tC
Italy, and Mrs. CaZenove Lee, di
rector of the washington com
mittee of the Lee Foundation. Anc
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