Word: feministic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Carrie Chapman Catt, oldtime professional feminist who has avoided political parties and kept her eye on the larger theory of equality, declared in the New York Times on the same subject...
Emily Newell Blair, 53, began campaigning as a feminist in her native Missouri in 1914. She followed through the whole suffrage fight that resulted in the 19th Amendment. She saw what women could do politically, hoped for even greater things. An excellent politician with a shrewd knack of organizing and leading women, she was elected to the Democratic National Committee in 1921, rose in three years to be its first vice-chairman...
...Dodson of Iowa, resigned. Mrs. Yost, a sister-in-law of Fielding Harris ("Hurry Up") Yost, athletic director at the University of Michigan, was a student under Senator Fess when he was professor of law at Ohio Northern University. She moved to West Virginia, entered politics as a feminist. She headed the State's Republican Executive Committee, was chosen West Virginia's Republican National Committeewoman. Last winter she ably marshaled all Dry witnesses for the House Judiciary Committee's investigation of Prohibition (TIME, March 17, et seq.). She was credited with having enough influence to get her husband, Ellis...
Kathleen Norris, 49, novelist, clubwoman, war-abolitionist, feminist, is married to Author Charles Gilman Norris (Salt, Brass, Bread). She has one son of her own, Frank (two daughters have died), but in the summer the Norrises' 200-acre ranch at Saratoga, Calif, houses a cheerful bedlam of children?wards, cousins, children from miles around needful of home life and a good time. Among other fauna at the Norris ranch are children of Poet Columnist William Rose Benet whose first wife was Mrs. Norris's sister, the late Teresa Frances Thompson...
...This book," declares the author in the first paragraph, "is a deliberately restricted and selective treatment of an inexhaustible subject." It is addressed to the aggressive feminist who in the upward swing of woman's reaction from the past attempts to find a place in man's field of activities to the detriment...