Word: catt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Carrie Chapman Catt, oldtime professional feminist who has avoided political parties and kept her eye on the larger theory of equality, declared in the New York Times on the same subject...
...week women throughout the land began to celebrate the tenth anniversary of their enfranchisement. Candles were lighted, cakes cut, roses distributed, old feminist banners, buttons and propaganda dug up for historic display. The National League of Women Voters held a great banquet in Manhattan at which Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, Honorary President of N. L. of W. V. and second only to the late great Susan Brownell Anthony as a feminist, flayed men voters with all her old vigor of presuffrage days...
...Peabody presented Dry law endorsements from Mrs. Thomas Alva Edison and Mrs. Henry Ford, echoes of the endorsements their husbands gave fortnight ago (TIME, March 17). From Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, famed feminist, she offered this statement: "In my circle of friends, with two exceptions, I have found no man, woman or child who drinks, brews, smuggles, purchases, sells or distributes any form of alcoholic liquor. These enormous dry circles appear to me to represent the climax of normal civilized growth. Those who still crave alcohol must acquire self-discipline before they attain the civilized standard. For them Prohibition...