Word: feministic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Ganna Walska d'Eighnhorn Fraenkel Cochran McCormick, 45, Polish-American opera singer, perfumer, feminist, whose four previous husbands had owned fortunes totaling $125,000,000; to Harry Grindell-Matthews, 57, inventor of the "death ray," which knocked out a cow 200 yards distant at its first British War Office tests; in London. The bride went on her honeymoon alone, while the investor rushed to his Clydach, Wales laboratory (fenced with electrified wire) to perfect an aerial torpedo...
...Hang your clothes on a hickory limb, but don't go near the water" the sequel to the play's title, represents the reluctance with which the mother in the story, author, lecturer, feminist, and graduate of Greenwich Village, grants permission to her impetuous daughter to go away on a clandestine week-end with the young man she loves but cannot yet marry. This daughter is bidding fair to be fully as enlightened as her mother was, for it is she who suggested the week...
...until he was past 70 did Anti-Feminist See begin to mellow. Last year one of his female cousins persuaded him to give a dinner for 15 leading Manhattan women, with the result that Mr. See announced his conversion, at least to the extent of approving women's colleges...
...Democracy. She participates in many of Mrs. Roosevelt's pet projects, is a co-vice president of her Val-Kill Furniture shop. When Caroline O'Day ran for Congress in 1934, Mrs. Roosevelt broke precedent to campaign for her. She was re-elected last autumn. No rabid feminist, she smooths ruffled Congressmen by such disarming state ments as: "But I don't know a thing about economics!" This is her new post as chairwomen of the Committee on Election of the President she may suddenly get something to do before long was suggested last week by Columbia...
When famed Feminist Carrie Chapman Catt saw that the fight for woman suffrage in the U. S. was about to be won. she journeyed to the Philippine Islands in 1913 and publicly proposed suffrage for her little brown sisters. Male Filipinos laughed derisively. Their women had been virtual slaves in their homes until the Philippines came under U. S. rule...