Word: cattlewoman
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...seven years Cattlewoman Truskett has tried to achieve a membership in the Kansas City Livestock Exchange. Refused again & again, she alleges the reason to be that she is a woman and complains that exchange members have secretly forced cattle shippers to stop selling through her. She traded brusque stockyard words with them. Result: "One of them snapped his fingers in my face." Outraged, she last week sued the exchange directors & officers (30 men) for violation of a state law which provides that anyone may hold a membership in the Exchange. The defendants, unperturbed, informed newsmen that two women were...
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