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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...
...Pinney and his immediate family are rather carefully than well observed. Mrs. Chapman completes her sketch in the first chapter. The rest of the book is predictable. But on she goes, stabbing her victims with repeated thrusts of her vindictive hatpin. Not that it isn't a sympathetic picture. You feel sorry for Mr. Pinney, bristling and blustering, with his eawing laugh and his spoon cracking in the mustache cup and his pocket comb and his self-inflated pride and obtrusive optimism...
...Poor Pinney. Marian Chapman. Boni...
...following estimates of books most in the public eye were made after careful consideration of the trend of critical opinion: POOR PINNEY-Marian Chapman -Boni ($2.00). Poor Pinney is an inoffensive, pathetic and extremely objectionable little commuter. He is a tyrant in his own home and keeps up a brave front over his abysmal internal hollowness. He looks up to the local Babbitts with a marked awe, which he refuses to acknowledge to himself. His ship is always on its way in and never docks. His story is told with meticulous attention to the detail of his vulgarisms. THE GIRL...