Word: catt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Mary Garrett Hay, 71, famed New York suffragist & prohibition pioneer; of heart disease; in New Rochelle, N. Y. For 30 years she had made her home with her coworker, Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt...
...joined Anna Shaw and Carrie Chapman Catt to fight for women's suffrage. She founded the Woman's Peace Society, on nonresistance doctrine formulated by her father and perfected by Russia's Tolstoy. But vote-seeking and international peace gatherings consumed only part of her time and energy. For nearly a half-century she managed the New York Diet Kitchen Association and was active in many another social service body in and about Manhattan. Tireless, vivid, she mounted many a platform in her last years, a majestic old gentlewoman in the kind of hats Queen Victoria liked...
...those women wear today, were much annoyed by the gadflies biting their legs. Hence they adjourned quickly. Well, now I never heard that Thomas Jefferson was a jokester, but if he wrote that letter seriously, all I have to say is 'God bless the gadflies.'?Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt...
Clubwomen enjoy straight-from-the-shoulder speaking. So they enjoyed perhaps most of all a characteristic chastisement from Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, who snapped: "We are too sentimental, too emotional. But if we did what we ought to do we would call together all the presidents of all women's organizations (there must be a million of them) and, meeting in one room in private, discuss some fundamental questions. They would be: 'Where are we at?,' 'How much of the work that we women do outside the home is just like a kitten chasing its tail...
...application was last week refused (by a Chicago naturalization board) citizenship on grounds that she was "lacking in nationalistic feeling" and also because she had announced herself as an atheist. Her attorney, William B. Gemmill, said he would appeal to the U. S. District Court. Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, the American Civil Liberties Union and other liberals have interested themselves in what threatens to become "the Schwimmer Case...