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...DIED. Izetta Jewel Miller, 94, former actress and early feminist who twice ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate, from West Virginia, in the early 1920s; in La Jolla, Calif. Active in the women's movement before World War I, Miller reigned as the leading lady of Washington, D.C., theater and was President Woodrow Wilson's favorite actress...
Married. Mrs. Izetta Jewell Brown, who made the seconding speech in the nominating for President of the U. S. Democrat John W. Davis in Madison Square Garden, Manhattan, in 1924; to Dean Hugh Miller, of Union College; in Washington, in a friend's walled garden...
Engaged. Mrs. Izetta Jewell Brown, widow of Congressman William G. Brown Jr., once a stock company actress, twice a Democratic candidate for the U. S. Senate, who seconded the presidential nomination of John W. Davis at the last Democratic convention ( TIME, July 7, 1924); to Hugh Miller, professor of civil engineering at Union College, Schenectady. Professor Miller has two sons; Mrs. Brown, one daughter...
...included Governess Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming (Governess Ferguson was omitted; from Texas was chosen Florence P. Sterling, an officer of the Humble Oil Co.); Reah H. Whitehead, a justice of the peace from Washington; Mary M. Bartelme, a judge of the Chicago Juvenile Court; Izetta Jewell Brown, a politician from West Virginia (TIME, June 2, 1924)?business women, club women, attorneys, doctors, authors, editors, educators?all the usual and unusual occupations ranging to Elizabeth Daingerfield, Kentucky breeder of fine horses...
West Virginia nominated John W. Davis. The crowd was terribly weary, it stood and made a decent amount of noise for five minutes. Then Izetta Jewell Brown, who seconded Mr. Davis in 1920, seconded him again; moreover, she told the very same story as on the previous occasion, about God taking out man's brains and making woman (TIME, June 2). The story had been good before. It was good for a second time and for applause...