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...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...
...Carrie Chapman Catt: "Because at the International Suffrage Conference in Rome I succeeded in getting a resolution for an official visit to the grave of the Italian Unknown Soldier changed to a one- minute standing tribute to the dead of all nations, a Boston newspaper spoke of my ' perverse and mischief-making mind,' my 'busybody brain...
...Rome Congress of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance, the presidency passed from America to England. Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, veteran president of the Alliance, refused renomination. Mrs. Corbett Ashby, English feminist, was elected in her place...