Word: congresswoman
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...President to the U.S. delegation for the 13th session of the United Nations General Assembly was a golden-voiced Connecticut Democrat: Negro Contralto Marian Anderson. The choice strengthened what has become a U.S. tradition of naming distinguished women as U.N. delegates. Among her predecessors: Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, Ohio Republican Congresswoman Frances P. Bolton, Cinemactress Irene Dunne and Mrs. Oswald B. Lord...
...Douglas, a former Broadway star and Democratic Congresswoman from California, spoke in New Lecture Hall about our foreign policy as it relates to current problems in Hungary...
...House Interior Committee voted down, by a narrow 16 to 14, Idaho Congresswoman Gracie Pfost's bill to build a federal high dam in Hells Canyon. The Senate had already approved such a dam on the same Snake River stretch where the Idaho Power Co. is building the first of three privately financed low dams. The House committee demolished the high dam after reading a letter in which President Eisenhower said: "It is inconceivable to me that serious consideration is being given in some quarters to stopping this development, depriving the Northwest of power which is badly needed...
...University of Notre Dame's Laetare Medal, awarded annually for the past 74 years to outstanding U.S. Roman Catholic laymen, will go this year to ex-Ambassador to Italy Clare Boothe Luce for "her brilliant and singularly versatile career ... in the worlds of diplomacy, politics [Republican Congresswoman from Connecticut], the theater [The Women'], and letters [Europe in the Spring']." In Manhattan Clare Luce got word of the honor while plotting a new play (tentative title: The Little Dipper), all about a kleptomaniac, with Silent Cinemactresses Lillian and Dorothy Gish waiting in the wings for co-starring roles...
...week's end Nixon and party-including Congresswoman Frances P. Bolton, Congressman Charles C. Diggs Jr. (one of the three Negroes in the House) and Walter A. Gordon, Negro governor of the Virgin Islands-flew into Accra, capital of the Gold Coast, to represent the U.S. at ceremonies marking the transformation of that British colony into the independent Commonwealth State of Ghana...