Word: catt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Samuel Gompers (by proxy) for the American Federation of Labor, Walker D. Hines for the U. S. Chamber of Commerce. Mrs. James Lees Laidlaw for the League of Nations Non-Partisan Association, Rabbi Abram Simons for the Central Conference of American Rabbis, Miss Jane Addams and Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt for the Women's World Court Committee; A. Lawrence Lowell, President of Harvard; Professor Manly O. Hudson, also of Harvard; Theodore Marburg, former Ambassador to Belgium, and many another. And yet, knowing the Foreign Relations Committee, political observers are inclined to agree that if any favorable action is taken...
...begun to worry, except socially, over the formidable "grandmothers with a purpose." But in spite of this exuberance of outlook, the conference presents a creditable list of women actively participating. Mrs. Herbert Hoover will be Chairman; Mrs. Robert Lansing, Secretary. The speakers scheduled include Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt (Assistant Attorney General), Major Roy Asa Haynes (National Prohibition Chief), Senator Frank B. Willis...
...ballots, President Coolidge led with 52,274 votes. Next came McAdoo with 6,611 votes. And after him, in order, Ford, Hughes, Wilson, Hoover, Underwood, Hiram Johnson, Pinchot, La Follette, Borah, Lowden, W. J. Bryan, John W. Davis, Ralston, Glass, Alfred E. Smith, Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, Mellon. Tied for last place (with one vote each) were Ring Lardner and John Davison Rockefeller...
...Coolidge's sorority sisters include other prominent women: Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt (Iowa) ; Mary Brodhead Wallace (Iowa) and Ruth Wallace (Iowa and Goucher), wife and daughter of the Secretary of Agriculture; Alma Moser Reinsch (Wisconsin), wife of the former Minister to China...
Others near the foot of the list were Col. E. M. House, James W. Gerard, Pierce Butler, Jerome K. Jerome, Louis D. Brandeis, Came Chapman Catt, Charles M. Schwab...