Word: huck
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Huck's Experiments...
Take the case of Mrs. Winifred Mason Huck. Some two months ago, she visited with her friends Governor and Mrs. Victor A. Donahey of Ohio. The Governor, noted for his interest in prison reform, wished to find out about prison conditions for women. A friend charged Mrs. Huck with stealing his overcoat. She pleaded guilty, was sentenced to six months in jail. She spent three days in the Cleveland jail amid bummers, dope users and bad food (according to her account); then was sent with a Negress bootlegger to the prison at Marysville. There she lived with female murderers...
Thus New England sends a woman to Congress for the first time. She is the seventh woman to sit in the House of Representatives. Others: Miss Jeannette Rankin (Montana) ; Miss Alice Robertson (Oklahoma) ; Mrs. Winifred Mason Huck (Illinois) ; Mrs. Mae E. Nolan (California) ; Mrs. Julius Kahn-(California) ; Mrs. Mary T. Norton* (New Jersey). She follows the new "widow" precedent in politics (Mrs. Nolan and Mrs. Kahn and Governess Ross of Wyoming succeeded their husbands-Mrs. Huck, her father...
...Winifred Mason Huck, young and clever and ready to proclaim and stand for certain ideals that many of us applauded, served a fraction of a term in Congress because she was the daughter of a politician with a following-a following which she inherited at his death. Women neither selected nor elected...
GOIN' ON FOURTEEN-Irvin S. Cobb- Doran ($2.50). John C. Calhoun Custer had his 13th birthday the day before the first page of this book. He is spiritual brother to "Penrod," to "Huck Finn," to "Tom Bailey," to all the other naughty urchins whose pranks bring reminiscent lumps to shriveled throats. The story-or series of stories-is true to form. There are adventures with dogs and cats, a treasure-hunting expedition, the inevitable circus, a running away from home. There is tragedy when the village bad boy dies to rescue a contemporary from drowning. The book is like...