Word: courtlandt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...head of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, spoke. "I represent," shouted Ella Boole, "the women of America!" "Well, lady," Mrs. Sabin recalls remarking to herself, "here's one woman you don't represent." As a nucleus for her organization, Mrs. Sabin called upon Mrs. Courtlandt Nicoll, Mrs. Coffin Van Rensselaer, insurgent Miss Wetmore and Mrs. Moore. The W. O. N. P. R. was founded in May 1929 at Chicago. Program- The W. O. N. P. R. program has followed that of the longtime Dry policy: trying to get men in Congress and the White House...
...half the delegates considered it hypocritical to call on a President so hostile to their principle of Prohibition repeal. Therefore Mrs. Sabin and Mrs. Courtlandt Nicoll, the organization's secretary, could muster only 534 Vets for the march to the White House. Mrs. Nicoll carried a W. 0. F. N. P. R. resolution petitioning the President and Congress to resubmit the 18th Amendment to the States. This she handed to the President...
...vexed as a hornet, one Signer Antonio Pizzuco returned from Italy to the Bronx, buzzed all week indignantly to reporters who bought and ate the sherbets he freezes for a living at No. 769 Courtlandt...