Word: ince
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bumpkin Associated Country Women of the World were being feted by the Roosevelts in Washington last week (see p. 15), a more affluent sisterhood convened in Chicago's conservative Palmer House for the first Finance Congress of Women. The Congress was sponsored by Women Investors in America, Inc., as bitter an enemy as the New Deal boasts. And from 18 states went female capitalists to extol the right of property, to exhort each other to defend their investments as they would their young...
Head of Women Investors in America, Inc. is Cathrine Curtis, a tall, grey-haired onetime radio commentator. Wearing a tan costume and a roughrider hat, Director Curtis keynoted: "Have we been blinded by demagogs? Have we been lulled to a state of catalepsy by political pap, or have we been too lazy to assert and demand our sovereign rights? . . . Capitalism is not a devouring monster, and all the bitter denunciations emanating from ignorant and prejudiced sources cannot alter the fact that America owes her supremacy in world affairs to capitalism. . . . Woman, of course, through her great ownership of insurance, trust...
...Staley College of the Spoken Word, Inc. (Boston) Alumnus James Michael Curley, Governor of Massachusetts...
...Mendl, born Elsie de Wolfe, withered, bright-eyed Grand Old Woman of Franco-American socialites, was still doing back rolls, handstands and cartwheels in the garden of her Villa Trianon in Versailles to keep "young." And last week her prosperous, 31-year-old Manhattan decorating firm, Elsie de Wolfe, Inc., held its first exhibition of interiors...
...Washington, D. C. last week went Baritone Lawrence Tibbett, not to sing but to lobby. As president of American Guild of Musical Artists, Inc., Mr. Tibbett sought the ear of the House Immigration Committee. Chairman of that committee is a citizen of Manhattan's lower East Side named Samuel Dickstein, who made his political reputation framing tenement and kosher food laws. Mr. Tibbett had come to persuade Mr. Dickstein & committee that the present arrangement by which foreign musical artists are permitted to perform in the U. S. is far from kosher to the musical profession...