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...Carrie Chapman Catt, Chairman of the Conference, suggested that a new Cabinet post, "Secretary of Peace," be created. She declared that the Army and Navy must "continue to be honored and respected until a safe and sane substitute is found." Race and religious prejudices must be abandoned, she asserted, and concluded : "The white race must disgorge. The lands we stole from the yellow and black races at the point of the sword must be returned ere there can ever be peace on the earth...
...chairman of the conference was the renowned Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, Honorary President of the National League of Women Voters, and leader of many women's movements...
...opponents of the Amendment have made great headway. Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, Honorary Chairman of the League of Women Voters, told her pro-Amendment following: "The amendment is as good as dead and buried and the obsequies performed, unless something is done about it and done quickly." Experienced observers were inclined to confirm her prediction. The opponents of the Amendment have succeeded to a marked degree-and this may be said without implying that they are wrong-in generating a real fear of its consequences. Fear is a tremendously important political asset. Fear of the League of Nations helped...
...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...