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...with Germany. Tops among 56 original Signers of this document were names to thrill millions of cinemagoers: Joan Crawford, Bette Davis, Joan Bennett, Myrna Loy, etc., etc. In other cities, other groups of 56 signers are being formed. Less glamorous names represented New York, including Helen Keller, Carrie Chapman Catt, Mary E. Woolley. Excerpts from their Declaration of trade war, to which they propose obtaining 20,000,000 signatures...
When famed Feminist Carrie Chapman Catt saw that the fight for woman suffrage in the U. S. was about to be won. she journeyed to the Philippine Islands in 1913 and publicly proposed suffrage for her little brown sisters. Male Filipinos laughed derisively. Their women had been virtual slaves in their homes until the Philippines came under U. S. rule...
...time Mrs. Catt sailed away, however, Filipino women were up & doing about enfranchisement. The native politicians adopted bobbing & weaving tactics. At one session the Philippine Senate would pass a bill enfranchising women, and the House would kill it. At the next the House would do the passing, the Senate the killing. Realizing that the men could not save their political faces forever with such trickery, the women campaigned ever more vigorously. When, in 1933, Michigan's Bachelor Frank Murphy became the first Democratic Governor-General in twelve years, they had the gallant ally they needed. With his help they...
Normally a courageous feminist, Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt is accustomed to name annually "The Ten Women of the Year." This week she not only did not name Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simpson as one of her ten women of 1936 but emphasized her attitude by announcing that she is not going to name any more women of the years. In past years Mrs. Catt has named such women as Mrs. Lindbergh, Miss Perkins, Miss Earhart, with President Roosevelt's wife heading the list year after year...
...National Broadcasting Co. to work for the Democratic National Committee, brought to the White House the first fruits of his new labor: the directors of the Good Neighbor League, newly organized to promote the New Deal's "Good Neighbor" policy. Among the directors were Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, Methodist Bishop Edgar Blake, Dr. George Foster Peabody, Mrs. Estelle M. Sternberger, Banker Amadeo Peter Giannini, Social Worker Lillian D. Wald, Dr. Henry Goddard Leach. Object of the League was to unite the forces of Feminism, Piety and Pacifism behind Franklin Roosevelt for reelection...