Word: chairwomen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Congress in 1934, Mrs. Roosevelt broke precedent to campaign for her. She was re-elected last autumn. No rabid feminist, she smooths ruffled Congressmen by such disarming state ments as: "But I don't know a thing about economics!" This is her new post as chairwomen of the Committee on Election of the President she may suddenly get something to do before long was suggested last week by Columbia University's President Nicholas Murray Butler who prophesied in London that in 1940 there will be four Presidential candidates deadlocked, possibly throwing the vote for President into the House...
...will boss the chairwomen of Italy's 12,000 female fasci. The prime tangible duty of their 200,000 members is to help run 50,000 Maternita e Infanzia clinics and many a hospital, which the Government subsidizes. To the poor women who come to the clinics and hospitals the women Fascists pass on Italy's peculiar kind of "feminism." Politically aggressive in other countries, feminism in Italy is politically self-effacing, advertises the beauties of motherhood and domesticity. It advises women factory workers to quit their jobs if possible, all women to grow "healthfully buxom," "give strong...
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