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...Bethune bought a farm to "teach the girls sense," and to raise vegetables for the table. By 1918 people had given enough money to build an auditorium. Later Governor Catts of Florida and Vice President Coolidge spoke at the dedication. A knowledge of these things added interest, for the clubwomen, to the competent, slow speech of Mrs. Bethune. And she further interested them because, with her big comfortable body, big lips, slow voice, wise eyes, she sprang from that type of Negress which made such superlative nurses for the sons of neat white women- before these white women took...
...Miami or Los Angeles, "kept pace with the march of progress." It is still an old Spanish town. Its population is only 7,500 including some progressive citizens. Recently its Chamber of Commerce issued an invitation to women leaders to establish a sort of Chautauqua to which clubwomen from surrounding states might come for three months each summer. Permanent buildings were to be erected, and it was expected some 3,000 would annually visit there. Merchants were pleased. Then the storm broke. Artists of many kinds who had gone to Santa Fe to make the old city their home, residents...
...Philip N. Moore is a trustee of Vassar (from which college she was graduated in 1873), and one of the best-known clubwomen in the U. S. In 1924, she went to Lima, Peru, as a U. S. delegate to the Pan-American Scientific Congress. As wife of the President of the American Institute of Mining Engineers, she has visited throughout the world. Her home is in St. Louis...
...unsympathetic with Des Moines clubwomen are most newspaper editors of the U. S. was demonstrated, a fortnight ago, when, with the customary exception of the Christian Science Monitor and a few others, every newspaper of any dimensions cast of the Mississippi set aside one or more columns a day on Page 1 for glowing accounts of the trial, at Hartford, Conn., of one Gerald Chapman for the murder of a New Britain, Conn., patrolman...
...Women's National Law Enforcement Committee, with a membership of 1,000, Mrs. Herbert Hoover* as its chairman, allegedly representing 10,000,000 clubwomen in the U. S., held a two days' session in Washington...