Word: forli
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mrs. Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont, president of the party, was detained in her Paris home, could not attend the convention. She sent the delegates a cablegram. In return, they re-elected her to office. Her absence, however, did prevent dedication of the new party headquarters on B Street, to which...
¶Declared Miss Gail Laughlin. Maine legislator: "There may be too much lobbying going on in Washington, but there is not nearly enough of the right kind." She urged more lobbying for the "20th Amendment" (equality of the sexes in all things before the U. S. law).
¶Eight feminist ticket sellers in New York's subway sacrificed six days' pay to attend the convention, to plead for industrial equality.
The Interstate Commerce Commission, in its annual report last week, shook a warning finger at non-carrier holding corporations which gain control of two or more competing railroad systems. Congress was asked to make a "thorough investigation" of this latest corporate custom by which the I. C. C. feared its...
Assailed for championing "companionate marriage," ousted from office for "campaign irregularities," famed Benjamin Barr Lindsey of Denver was last week disbarred for "professional misconduct" by the Colorado State Supreme Court. While Denver Juvenile Court Judge- an office which he made nation-famed-he accepted a "gift" of some $40,000...