Word: feministic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...little girl Mrs. George Carleton Beal, 75, of Manhattan, once sat in Abraham Lincoln's lap. Since then she has always voted straight Republican. Said she: "But I'm for Roosevelt this time. What I want is a man of action. . . ." ¶ Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, famed feminist, declared for Hoover: ''This is no time to make over human society. . . . Nor is it a good time to change horses. . . ." ¶ "Dedicated to Franklin D. Roosevelt after hearing his lofty and noble appeal for the Forgotten Man'' were some verses by 80-year-old Edwin...
...party in Mt. Vernon, N. Y. to celebrate her 73rd birthday, Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, famed feminist, told newsmen: "I do not know much about the Manchurian situation, but from what I gather there is some mysterious cause for it all that we Occidentals cannot understand. . . . Incidentally, somebody has to spank Japan and China for the way they have been acting. I wonder how that will be done...
...France two French suffragets tried to convert Daughter Jose, argued that if French women are given the vote they can be depended on to always vote for peace. "French women are impulsive," retorted anti-Feminist Jose, "they could vote for war as well as peace. Many would vote contrary to their husbands in a spirit of contradiction. I would prefer a dozen babies to a seat in the Chamber of Deputies...
...Father. Mad Johan August Strindberg wrote this play about a mad man in 1887, partly to attack the growing feminist movement in Sweden, partly to work off some of his hatred of woman kind. Revived by Robert Loraine and a company of British actors, it retains all the fury its author put into it 44 years ago, acquires a little more in Mr. Loraine's presentation of the breakdown of a paranoiac mind. Its theme: "Love be tween the sexes is Strife." Adolph (Rob ert Loraine), a Swedish scientist, is con fronted with the problem of what to do about...
Spain's Minister of Prisons, British-blooded Senorita Victoria Kent, leading Spanish feminist, opposed the law: "Spanish women are not prepared for the ballot...