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Radiomen regard Grauer as one of the glibbest ad-libbers on the air. But like all announcers, he has had his share of slips. His favorite printable one was a spoonerism. After guiding the late Carrie Chapman Catt through a difficult broadcast, Grauer turned to her in relief and said, all too clearly, "Thank you, Mrs. Catt, we are deepful grately...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Handyman | 3/15/1948 | See Source »

Cavalcade of America (Mon. 8 p.m., NBC). Helen Hayes as the late Feminist Carrie Chapman Catt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Nov. 3, 1947 | 11/3/1947 | See Source »

Died. Carrie Chapman Catt, 88, militant matriarch of world feminists, successor to the late Susan B. Anthony as leader of the fight for U.S. women's suffrage, founder of the National League of Women Voters; in New Rochelle, N.Y. After the suffragettes' 1920 victory (the 19th Amendment), she looked around for new arenas, crusaded vigorously for world peace, meanwhile kept a sharp eye on women's rights at home & abroad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 17, 1947 | 3/17/1947 | See Source »

...horrible mistake which will most certainly carry us right into the abyss of Communism." Cited as U.S. industry's leading lady (by the National Association of Manufacturers), one of the country's ten best-dressed women (by the Fashion Academy), 100 outstanding women (by Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt), Miss Kellems explained that she needs the Government's money to build her reserve because her own money is tied up in a reserve of materials. To Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau, her stand "smack[ed] of disloyalty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jan. 31, 1944 | 1/31/1944 | See Source »

Liberals, writers, college president, labor leaders, Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, Mrs. Calvin Coolidge had asked the President to investigate. Fortnight ago, 18,000 Negroes, massing at Madison Square Garden to orate about racial discrimination, had added their petition. Worried over the Negro's role in democracy, the New York Times declared: "The Waller case transcends sectional issues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: Second-Class Citizen | 7/6/1942 | See Source »

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