Word: feminist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Eight feminist ticket sellers in New York's subway sacrificed six days' pay to attend the convention, to plead for industrial equality...
Birthday. Richard Keir Pethick Pankhurst, illegitimate "eugenic baby" of famed English Feminist Estelle Sylvia Pankhurst by an anonymous male; at London. Age: 2. Having recently received a picture of Baby Pankhurst, George Bernard Shaw wrote Miss Pankhurst: ''The boy looks a jolly little animal and is still, I hope, trailing clouds of glory." Birthday. Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill, British politician, Conservative Party leader, author (The World Crisis); at London. Age: 55. Died. Lucy Abercrombie, 29, daughter of Col. David T. Abercrombie (David T. Abercrombie Co., camp outfitters, Manhattan); at Ossining, N. Y.; of burns. She was working...
Carefully Moderator McAfee pointed out that "the overtures are not a yielding to the clamor of the women nor an acceptance of their demand. There is no such clamor, no such demand." Added Feminist Ella Alexander Boole, President of the Women's Christian Temperance Union: "It is not at all probable that many women will seek ordination...
...Editor Carl Van Doren, Author Anthony forwarded three chapters at a time, as written, to Publisher Knopf. She refused to hurry, Guild or no Guild. Born in Arkansas, she attended Peabody College of Teachers in Nashville, Tenn., studied in Chicago, Heidelberg, Freiberg. A brown-haired, blue-eyed, middle-aged feminist, she has gone to Russia or to England, as the case may be, to collect her biographical materials. But she writes in her farmhouse in Brookville, Conn...
...MODERN FAMILY-Ruth Reed- Knopf ($3). In academic circles ideas need not be new to be exciting. Despite some circumlocation, Author Reed, not original, has enough feminist and liberal passion to excite one way or another those who care about The Family. For instance, in a Southern university not 1,000 miles from Dayton, Tenn., the president wrothily returned to Manhattan a copy of this book sent for examination...