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...spiritual relationship rather than a business partnership." ¶ Mrs. Park reprimanded those who groaned in disapproval. After an hour's debate the amendment was defeated. ¶f Quantities of birth control literature appeared, but, according to reports, was not circulated. Greetings were read from Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, who was one of the founders of the League. ¶ Mrs. Gifford Pinchot, wife of the Governor of Pennsylvania, declared in a speech: " I am a politician of the most hard-boiled and shelled-back variety-and proud of it." ¶ Lord Robert Cecil spoke on the League of Nations...
Woman Suffrage and Politics (the "inner story of the suffrage movement"), by Carrie Chapman Catt, has been written for those whose hearts will thrill to every step of the march toward the polls...
...fourth annual convention of the National League of Women Voters took place in Des Moines. On Monday, April 9, preliminary conferences were held. The following day Mrs. Maud Wood Park, president of the organization (mentioned by Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt in her list of the twelve greatest American women) opened the convention, which lasted for four days. The keynote of the convention this year, according to Mrs. Park, was the thought which underlies the League of Women Voters : " The most powerful factors in the world today are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men and women of good will...
...League, originated by Mrs. Catt, dates back to 1919. It aims to be non-partisan in organization-its members are both Republican and Democratic in politics-and it is definitely opposed to separate political action by women. Its purpose is to arouse civic responsibility among women, and to remove unjust legal restrictions on the equality of women. It is opposed, however, to the National Woman's Party which advocates absolute or "blanket" equality for women, because such a measure would do away with special protective laws for women in industry...
...Woman Suffrage Alliance will met at Rome in May to choose a successor to its president, Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt. The question is: Who will be elected? Mrs. Margery Corbett Ashby is being put forward by English suffragists. But the post has been occupied by an American for 20 years, and another Anglo-Saxon is considered undesirable. Mme. Marguerite Schlumberger, president of the French branch of the alliance, is suggested, but her election might "drive the Germans out of the association." Besides Mrs. Ashby and Mme. Schlumberger, Miss Crystal MacMillan of Scotland is the only other woman mentioned...