Word: gathered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first national elections in which more women than men were qualified to vote, Radcliffe College will celebrate the 40th anniversary of the passage of the amendment giving women the right to vote. Addressing the crowd of former suffragettes and present members of the League of Women Voters who will gather in the Woman's Rights Room in Longfellow will be Judge Florence E. Allen, a former leader of the suffrage movement and the only woman judge ever appointed to the United States Court of Appeals...
Gradually, she found herself becoming intersted in constitutional law and comparative national government. And then, with the fight for female franchise just beginning to gather force, Maud Wood Park (Radcliffe '93) ventured into the Midwest to drum up support for her nation-wide College Equal Suffrage League. With her tireless intellectual energy and immense personal charm, Mrs. Parks, later to chair the Congressional Committee of the National American Woman Suffrage Association during the crucial years of 1917 to 1920, immediately won over the girls at Western Reserve. "The girls in college who were the leaders--the bright, up and coming...
...together in science than in politics. This week the first phase of a U.N. global weather information service went into operation. Its four communication centers are at New York, Frankfurt, New Delhi-and Moscow. They are connected by radio or land-line teletypewriter circuits, and their job is to gather weather data from their areas of responsibility and pass it along to the others, either direct or by relay. In the spring of 1961 a Tokyo center will start work, completing the five-station chain around the Northern Hemisphere...
Dean Bundy yesterday endorsed the Presidential candidacy of Democratic Sen. John F. Kennedy '40. Bundy, a Republican, said he based his decision on Kennedy's ability to gather around him as advisors men of more diverse abilities and interests than those who would be prominent in a Nixon administration. He added that Kennedy would be more likely to counteract the Republican-Southern Democratic coalition which rules in Congress...
...fine points of strategy and schedules with aides, named some citizens' committees to campaign for the ticket. He made the front pages with a proposal that the U.S. finance several new institutes to pursue basic scientific research. Most of all, the Vice President used the time to gather some much-needed new material for his speeches, as he had last July when he entered solitary confinement for one week to frame his successful Chicago acceptance speech...