Word: chapman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rome Congress of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance, the presidency passed from America to England. Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, veteran president of the Alliance, refused renomination. Mrs. Corbett Ashby, English feminist, was elected in her place...
...customary to make the defeated candidate Vice Moderator and Chairman of the Committee on Bills and Overtures, which is really the steering committee of the whole Assembly. This post was offered to Mr. Bryan, but he took so long to think it over that Dr. Wishart finally appointed Spencer Chapman, a Philadelphia lawyer. Mr. Bryan refused the chairmanship of the Home Missions Committee, declaring that he would be able to carry on his fight against Darwinism better on the Education Committee, of which he is a member. The Moderator of the Assembly has the power of appointing the chairman...
...Congress of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance opened at Rome. It is the largest that has ever been held, over 1,000 delegates " from all lands " having assembled. Signor Mussolini, opposed to feminism and woman suffrage in Italy, but appreciating advertising, provided Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt (President) with a guard of honor of Fascisti...
...Carrie Chapman Catt ...............................politics...
Within ten days after it left Peking, the third Asiatic expedition of the American Museum of Natural History (TIME, April 28), under the leadership of Roy Chapman Andrews, unearthed a fossil carnivorous dinosaur in the Mongolian desert. The giant, lizard-like reptile has not been identified with other known species, but belongs probably to the Triassic period (4,000,000 to 10,000,000 years ago). The legs are nine feet long, almost as large as the great herbivorous brontosaurus, some specimens of which in American museums have legs ten feet long, a total length of 50 to 90 feet...