Word: catt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...full meeting of the Alliance was given four reasons by its officers for refusing admission to the National Woman's Party: 1) That the League of Women Voters had objected to it; 2) That Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, founder of the Alliance, had objected; 3) That if admission were granted there would be a conflict of opinion in the American group; 4) That the Woman's Party had given news directly to the press in Paris without sending it through the official press bureau. The last objection was stressed, and the Woman's Party merely answered that...
...Catt has power and ability...
Federation refused to endorse suffrage until 1913. Mrs. Catt could point women's way to world peace, because she is statesmanlike and clearheaded, but she lacks imagination and the magnetism that all really great leaders must have. Her appeal is to the mind and not to the heart and the mind is slow to work when the heart is cold. Jane Addams sees a century ahead, and she sees a clear path to the light for which we are groping-but she sees but one path. If we won't take that path, she walks on alone...
...this juncture, a remarkable personality came to the fore. Ask a dozen political women what woman is most fitted to be President of the U. S. and six will answer: Carrie Chapman Catt. She put the 19th Amendment into the Constitution. This widow of an Iowa newspaperman has probably presided over more congregations of women, has composed more intra-sex quarrels, than any other contemporary...
Reformer to the end, Mrs. Catt made yet one more attack...