Lady at Large

In the Capitol's Statuary Hall stands a large Gutzon Borglum bronze of the late John Campbell Greenway in Army breeches, boots, crop and shirt. Arizona chose this Yaleman, Rough Rider, A. E. F. colonel, rancher and copper tycoon as one of its two most distinguished citizens, had his statue made and presented to the Government. Last week the youngest State started John Greenway's widow on her way to the Capitol and to a seat in the House of Representatives not 100 yards from her husband's statue. Arizona Democrats nominated Mrs. Greenway to be their State's lone Representative-at-large, succeeding Lewis Williams Douglas, now Director of the Budget. So great is her personal popularity that she defeated two male rivals more than 4-to-1. Republicans did not even bother to nominate an opponent for her in the November election. No one was happier over her success than her bosom friends, the Franklin D. Roosevelts. Simultaneously Arizona became the 21st State to ratify the Repeal Amendment to the Constitution. Nominee Greenway was born Isabella Selmes 46 years ago in Kentucky. Fatherless at 8, she went to private school in Manhattan, there met Anna Eleanor Roosevelt. She was bridesmaid at the Roosevelt-Roosevelt wedding on St. Patrick's Day, 1905. Next year, aged 19, she married Robert Monroe Ferguson, bore him a son and a daughter, went West to homestead in New Mexico. Mr. Ferguson died in 1921 and she married his good friend John Greenway two years later. Mr. Greenway died in 1926.

At the peak of the 1929 boom Mrs. Greenway was smart enough to sell out many a copper stock she had inherited from her husband, became one of Arizona's wealthiest widows. She kept, however, her Quarter Circle Double X ranch near Williams. Her home is in Tucson, 50 yards down the street from her famed Arizona Inn. That hostelry came into being as a result of her generous interest in disabled veterans. She supplied the government hospital with tools and machinery for making furniture. When a market for the furniture disappeared, she opened the Arizona Inn and furnished it with purchases from the hospital factory.

Silvery-haired Isabella Greenway has a clean outdoor look about her. She uses neither rouge nor lipstick. She is most at home in the saddle. She has an expert eye for cattle. No Roosevelt goes West without stopping off to visit her at Tucson or Williams. An able Democrat, she has been Arizona's national committeewoman since 1928. At the Chicago convention last year she seconded the Roosevelt nomination and had a large hand in engineering the McAdoo switch. Her House seat will be her first public office.

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