Word: catt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Twenty years ago Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt organized the International Woman Suffrage Alliance. On May 12 that organization opens its biennial convention in Rome, and Mrs. Catt has announced that she will finally retire from the Presidency which she has held since 1904. As a lecturer and woman suffrage leader she is known throughout the country and also as a most prominent advocate of the Nineteenth Amendment. During recent months she has been touring South America, arousing the proponents of suffrage in those countries. Her last official act as President of the International Alliance will be to make a report...
...Catt's work in South America may have some bearing on the selection of her successor. Inasmuch as an Anglo-Saxon has been President of the organization since its inception, it is thought advisable to elect a "Latin " woman as the next President. International politics, however, will play its part. If a French or Italian woman were elected there is fear that the German women might be alienated. Mrs. Maud Wood Park, President of the National League of Women Voters and delegate to the Convention from the United States, predicted that the next President of the Alliance would...
...spiritual relationship rather than a business partnership." ¶ Mrs. Park reprimanded those who groaned in disapproval. After an hour's debate the amendment was defeated. ¶f Quantities of birth control literature appeared, but, according to reports, was not circulated. Greetings were read from Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, who was one of the founders of the League. ¶ Mrs. Gifford Pinchot, wife of the Governor of Pennsylvania, declared in a speech: " I am a politician of the most hard-boiled and shelled-back variety-and proud of it." ¶ Lord Robert Cecil spoke on the League of Nations...
...fourth annual convention of the National League of Women Voters took place in Des Moines. On Monday, April 9, preliminary conferences were held. The following day Mrs. Maud Wood Park, president of the organization (mentioned by Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt in her list of the twelve greatest American women) opened the convention, which lasted for four days. The keynote of the convention this year, according to Mrs. Park, was the thought which underlies the League of Women Voters : " The most powerful factors in the world today are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men and women of good will...
...League, originated by Mrs. Catt, dates back to 1919. It aims to be non-partisan in organization-its members are both Republican and Democratic in politics-and it is definitely opposed to separate political action by women. Its purpose is to arouse civic responsibility among women, and to remove unjust legal restrictions on the equality of women. It is opposed, however, to the National Woman's Party which advocates absolute or "blanket" equality for women, because such a measure would do away with special protective laws for women in industry...