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Carrie Lane, Carrie Chapman, Carrie Catt, name her what you will, an Iowa farmer's daughter (born however in Wisconsin), was thus denounced, and, her spirit certainly held sway in the meeting of the International Suffrage Alliance not only because of her financial contributions (as Mrs. Belmont mentioned) but because she was its founder and President from 1904 to 1923 when she retired (TIME...
There are reasons for Mrs. Catt's influence. Born on a farm, she worked her way through a four-year course at Grinnell College in three years, and the entire cost to her father was only $100. At 22 she was Superintendent of schools at Mason City, Iowa. At 25 she married a struggling country editor, Leo Chapman, and worked with him until his death less than two years later. At 30 she was soliciting advertisements for a trade paper in San Francisco. At 31 she married George W. Catt (who died 15 years later), and most...
...committed the unnatural act of kicking to death all of the many stallions brought to her in an effort to obtain an especially fine breed of horses. Appalled by the mare's actions, pious Nipponese noted the position of the constellations and rashly predicted that all female children born under this "Sign of the Horse" would cause the death of their husbands...
There will be a symphony by George Antheil, young U. S. composer born in Trenton, N. J., now living in Paris; a work descriptive of Spanish scenes by Halfers, famed composer of Madrid; Honegger's Three Preludes for D'Annunzio's Fedra; Aaron Copeland's Music for the Theatre given this season in Manhattan by a small orchestra under Serge Koussevitsky for the League of Composers...
...often the case with able Midlanders wherever found, Earle Martin's origins can be traced to that hotbed of literati and journalists, Indiana. He was born at Edinburgh, Ind., in 1874, and 20 years later got his first job from Meredith Nicholson, now famed as a novelist, on the Indianapolis News. In 1896 he joined the Scripps forces as a "police cub" under Charles F. Mosher of the Cincinnati Post, whose managing editor he became within three years...