Word: feministic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...each for lectures on women in public affairs, Princeton still has half that amount on its hands because it agreed to accept the gift. The grant was made in the will of the late Albert E. Pillsbury, former attorney-general of Massachusetts, who believed "that the modern feminist movement tends to take woman out of the home and put her into politics government, or business, and that this has already begun to impair the family as the basis of civilization and the measure of its advance...
Anne Morgan, president of the American Woman's Association, and stately spinster sister of J. Pierpont Morgan, advised fellow Manhattan social workers : I do not believe the feminist principle is our solution. I am a frantic believer in women's solidarity, and by that I do not mean at all an anti-man stand, but rather the development of the capacity to stand and work together. . . . I am not a feminist...
Large, handsome, healthy and vigorous, Viscountess Rhondda at 51 is chairman of seven companies, director of 24 others dealing in iron, steel, coal, shipping, newspapers. As her chief occupation she regards the editorship of Time & Tide, which she founded as a feminist weekly and which still employs only women in the office. Only child of the late David Alfred Thomas, Welch "coal king," she inherited his vast business interests, his title, his amazing vitality. As Lady Mackworth (she is divorced from Sir Humphrey Mackworth) she went to jail and hunger-struck in the Pankhurst campaign for women's suffrage...
Died. Ruth Hale, 48, writer, onetime wife of Columnist Heywood Broun, president of the Lucy Stone League; of acidosis; in Manhattan. A vigorous feminist, she managed to have her U. S. passport read "Miss Ruth Hale" instead of "Mrs. Heywood Broun," although she was married to the columnist at the time. Friends considered her subsequent amicable divorce from Mr. Broun (TIME, Jan. 29) simply a romantic gesture to establish their individualities...
Mount Holyoke, at small South Hadley, Mass. (pop. 6,773), last week began its 34th year under the presidency of Mary Emma Woolley, 71, famed feminist and warrior for peace who crowned her labors in 1932 as the only U. S. woman delegate to the unsuccessful Geneva Disarmament Conference. Standing erect and impressive in academic gown before 226 freshmen and 704 upperclassmen, large, florid President Woolley announced: "Cynicism and pessimism are oldfashioned, as oldfashioned, I suspect, as human nature itself...