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...little over one hundred years ago Harriet Martineau, a deaf but gifted English spinster, toured the U. S. equipped with reforming zeal, a philosophical and inquisitive mind, and a huge, old-fashioned ear trumpet which she aimed like a blunderbuss at the people she questioned. She discovered that only seven occupations were open to U. S. women: domestic service, keeping boarders, teaching young children, needlework, weaving, typesetting and bookbinding.* In 1840 two U. S. ladies, Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, attended a World's Anti-Slavery Conference in London, were first barred because of their sex, then permitted...
...shares. Three years later his second wife divorced him and married a onetime Prohibition agent. Later, to satisfy her debts, he sold his $1,350,000 estate at Great Neck, L. I. for $169,000. For his third wife, he took an Omaha, Neb. brewer's daughter, Mrs. Harriet Metz Noble, in 1933. A year later he was in bankruptcy -his fourth, for $2,259,000. At 56, he was back where he started...
Whether or not Marian was a platonic boarder, Author Haight does not say. In any case, she remained for two years of weekly soirees, got to know nearly everybody worth knowing among Victorian advanced thinkers. Among them were Herbert Spencer, Carlyle, Harriet Martineau, Francis Newman...
...first half of Beecher's poem is made up of a series of portrait-sketches of his ancestral relatives-the blacksmith Beechers whose guns were held at present-arms when Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown; Harriet Beecher Stowe, whom Lincoln called "the little lady who made the great war"; Henry Ward Beecher, who, on being handed his diploma at Amherst, was told by the college's president, "Well, this is the last we shall hear of you, Mr. Beecher"; Thomas K. Beecher, who chose to be a small-town preacher...
...Messrs. Stettinius & Knudsen went the big, full-time jobs. Most of their fellow commissioners also moved in last week. Sloe-eyed, calm-mouthed Dean Harriet Elliott of the University of North Carolina conferred with Federal officials interested in her job of consumer protection. Net impression about her job was that, for the moment, its functions will be delightfully vague. Agriculturist Chester C. Davis got a capable assistant, Paul Porter of CBS, publicly did little else. Railroader Ralph Budd (transportation) was heard to remark that he faced only one problem: an excess of facilities. Labor Overseer Sidney Hillman was still...