Word: catt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...over to personal letters in TIME, March 7 you make the following statement: Comparatively "poor men" who have appeared on TIME'S cover: . . . Pope Pius XI, Alfred E. Smith, Paul von Hindenburg, Andrew Volstead, Doctor Ray Lyman Wilbur, Admiral Togo, Rene Fonck, Helen Wills, Joseph Conrad, Carrie Chapman Catt, Roy Chapman Andrews, Eugene O'Neill, John Joseph Pershing, Abd-el-Krim, Ramsay Macdonald. If these be poor men then us ordinary mortals must be paupers...
Comparatively "poor men" who have appeared on TIME's cover: Anton Lang, John L. Lewis, Pope Pius XI, Alfred E. Smith, Paul von Hindenburg, Andrew Volstead, Doctor Ray Lyman Wilbur, Admiral Togo, René Fonck, Helen Wills, Joseph Conrad, Carrie Chapman Catt, Roy Chapman Andrews, Eugene O'Neill, John Joseph Pershing, Abd-el-Krim, Ramsay MacDonald and Leon Trotzky...
...example: to handshaker No. 1 he will say, "How do you do?"; to No. 2, "It is good to see you"; to No. 3, "I hope you will like Washington" . . . to No. 13, "How do you do?" etc. Last week he received 600 women, headed by Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt (see p. 11) ; but declined to receive a group from the North Carolina College for Women, "because of the exceptional pressure of official duties...
...clubs last week sent delegates to Washington for a Conference on the Cause and Cure of War. The aim was not to cause, then cure, but to investigate the cause and if possible to cure. The delegates were under the able marshalship of white-haired Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, still, at 67, the nation's chief feminist. Certain more or less prominent male publicists were asked to speak...
...second session Mrs. Catt epigrammed: "I certainly think it should be made as easy to pass a peace measure as to adopt a war measure. Why should a two-thirds vote be required for peace, and a majority for war?" Mrs. Rufus C. Dawes, sister-in-law of the Vice President, suggested selecting the Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee on qualification rather than seniority;* was told satirically (by Denis P. Meyer, Librarian, World Peace Foundation) that "in view of the material available the method of appointment would not greatly matter...