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...example: to handshaker No. 1 he will say, "How do you do?"; to No. 2, "It is good to see you"; to No. 3, "I hope you will like Washington" . . . to No. 13, "How do you do?" etc. Last week he received 600 women, headed by Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt (see p. 11) ; but declined to receive a group from the North Carolina College for Women, "because of the exceptional pressure of official duties...
...clubs last week sent delegates to Washington for a Conference on the Cause and Cure of War. The aim was not to cause, then cure, but to investigate the cause and if possible to cure. The delegates were under the able marshalship of white-haired Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, still, at 67, the nation's chief feminist. Certain more or less prominent male publicists were asked to speak...
...second session Mrs. Catt epigrammed: "I certainly think it should be made as easy to pass a peace measure as to adopt a war measure. Why should a two-thirds vote be required for peace, and a majority for war?" Mrs. Rufus C. Dawes, sister-in-law of the Vice President, suggested selecting the Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee on qualification rather than seniority;* was told satirically (by Denis P. Meyer, Librarian, World Peace Foundation) that "in view of the material available the method of appointment would not greatly matter...
Thus reprovingly flaunted a poster which careened through southern France last week on top of a bus. The bus was paid for by Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont and Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, respectively august and flamboyant U. S. feminists. Within the bus jounced many a French suffragette...
...maggot in a great big piece of cheese." Thus Miss E. ("Wee Ellen") Wilkinson, shingled, petite, British Laborite M. P., broached an appeal for U. S. contributions to the British coal miners strike fund last week at a feminist foregathering in Manhattan presided over by Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt. "Wee Ellen," green of hat, green-gowned, dangling jauntily a green purse continued: "Nearly a million miners are locked out,"* (TIME...