Word: feministic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week women throughout the land began to celebrate the tenth anniversary of their enfranchisement. Candles were lighted, cakes cut, roses distributed, old feminist banners, buttons and propaganda dug up for historic display. The National League of Women Voters held a great banquet in Manhattan at which Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, Honorary President of N. L. of W. V. and second only to the late great Susan Brownell Anthony as a feminist, flayed men voters with all her old vigor of presuffrage days...
...campaigner with an inherited flair for politics, she had built up an organization of workers in every one of Illinois' 102 counties. She asked for the women's vote, but she could truthfully say she did not want it simply because she was a woman. No professional feminist is Mark Hanna's daughter, but that rare thing among women, a truly professional politician...
...Peabody presented Dry law endorsements from Mrs. Thomas Alva Edison and Mrs. Henry Ford, echoes of the endorsements their husbands gave fortnight ago (TIME, March 17). From Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, famed feminist, she offered this statement: "In my circle of friends, with two exceptions, I have found no man, woman or child who drinks, brews, smuggles, purchases, sells or distributes any form of alcoholic liquor. These enormous dry circles appear to me to represent the climax of normal civilized growth. Those who still crave alcohol must acquire self-discipline before they attain the civilized standard. For them Prohibition...
March 6-Unveiling of monument to the late Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst, famed feminist propagandist; in London...
...0thers: Poet Edna Vincent Millay, Feminist Ruth Hale, Writer Michael Gold, Humorist Dorothy Parker, Playwright John Howard Lawson...