Word: harriet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fully 300 "votes-for-women" veterans were there. Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, Miss Mary Garrett Hay, Mrs. Maud Wood Park. Mrs. Harriet Taylor Upton?they were there. The Vice Presidents of the Republican and Democratic National Committees (Mrs. Hert and Mrs. Blair respectively)?they were there. Nonagenarian Mrs. Hester M. Poole of New Hampshire?she, the eldest, was there. Heroic memories of Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucy Stone, Anna Howard Shaw?they were there...
...bought a share for $90 in 1912. It is worth $100 in 1913. He sells it in 1919 for $95. Can he deduct $5 as capital loss ? "No," said the Supreme Court, although Justices McReynolds and Sutherland dissented from the unalterable "No." The taxpayer (in this case, Harriet Flannery) had not suffered an actual loss, said the Court...
Died. Mrs. Bessie Rayner Belloc, 95, mother of Hilaire Belloc, famed British writer; in Slindon, Essex, England. An ardent suffragist, she, together with Harriet Martineau and Florence Nightingale, signed the first petition asking for suffrage for women ever presented to Parliament...
...Fergenson, Chairman, Miss Jeanette Slothnick; W. K. Wells, Miss Esther Joselle; H. T. Silverstein, Miss Bertha Alexander; W. J. Small, Miss June Small; Alfred Hauser, Miss Helen Bullard; A. P. J. Dessauer, Miss Frances Sterne; R. S. Sehwab, Miss Margaret Decker; A. Kranes, Miss Harriet Hertz; G. P. Morris Jr., Miss Ann Golden; A. O. Ludwig, Miss Senoret McDowell; Philip Ruskin, Miss Etta Feinberg...
More things are wrought by women than this world dreams of. From abolition down to prohibition many of the great American reforms have been effected in very large part by Eve's daughters, often using non-political instruments. The pen of Harriet Beecher Stowe, the hatchet of Carried Nation, the tongue of Mr. Carrie Chapman Catt--who can estimate the efficacy of these weapons of reform...