Word: catt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Catt revealed a secret 35 years old. When first elected President of the Association, in 1890, she flung herself on a bed and cried for three hours...
Fully 300 "votes-for-women" veterans were there. Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, Miss Mary Garrett Hay, Mrs. Maud Wood Park. Mrs. Harriet Taylor Upton?they were there. The Vice Presidents of the Republican and Democratic National Committees (Mrs. Hert and Mrs. Blair respectively)?they were there. Nonagenarian Mrs. Hester M. Poole of New Hampshire?she, the eldest, was there. Heroic memories of Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucy Stone, Anna Howard Shaw?they were there...
Apprehension. Mrs. Catt, the leader, made the chief speech: "Why don't women vote? What's wrong with the political parties? Why aren't there more women in the Legislature? Why aren't women more effective in politics?" These were her sombre, rhetorical questions. Her answer: "I wish Mrs. Hert and Mrs. Blair would call a mass meeting to find out. . . . The old National American Suffrage Association will pay one-third of the expenses." Her other points...
Then a certain Lieutenant Darte quite outdid even the Admiral, for he called the much maligned Carrie Chapman Catt, herself a member of the Council of National Defense, an ally of Moscow. Why? Because of her pacifist activities, of course; and yet two days ago Trotzky's successor, General Frunze, made a bold speech at Moscow calling all Reds to arms...
...than this world dreams of. From abolition down to prohibition many of the great American reforms have been effected in very large part by Eve's daughters, often using non-political instruments. The pen of Harriet Beecher Stowe, the hatchet of Carried Nation, the tongue of Mr. Carrie Chapman Catt--who can estimate the efficacy of these weapons of reform...