Word: janes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Among the smaller preliminary meetings, one of the most active was that of the Federation of Settlements, before which Jane Addams, co-founder (1889) and head of Hull House (Chicago), arose to protest against loose public thinking. The American people "are in a panic," said she. They identify everything connected with "social work" with "Socialism," or more often with Bolshevism. She cited the case of a distinguished member of Congress who "had it on very good authority" that the proposed Child Labor Amendment to the U. S. constitution had been written by the late Dictator Lenin in Moscow...
...Later, Jane Addams again took the rostrum, greying, spare and benign in her 66th year. Her penetrating low voice filled the hall with quiet reminiscence. She made no comment on a remark by President Vaile to the effect that the day of organization has succeeded the day of leadership in social work-the day of Jane Addams, Mary Richmond,* Owen R. Lovejoy**?but did say: "It is curious to notice the difference in world opinion 50 years ago and now. When I first went to Europe people everywhere were interested in the United States. They thought of America...
...novelist (Wife of the Centaur, Cruel Fellowship), to Miss Charlotte Dickinson of Grand Rapids, after meeting her for the first time at the wedding of Novelist Bronson (see above), at which he functioned as best man and she as honor maid. Novelist Hume's first wife, the onetime Jane Barbara Alexander, died last year in Florence, Italy, (TIME, June 1, MILESTONES...
Near Ossining, N. Y, there was opened last week Camp Edith Macy, given to the Girl Scouts of America as a training camp tor their leaders. For the opening there came together Girl Scouts and Girl Guides from 39 nations. There were Mrs. Jane Deeter Rippin, the National Director; Lady Baden-Powell (wife of Sir Robert who founded the Scout movement in England), who is the international leader; Mrs. Juliette Low, who introduced the Girl Guide movement in America (but American girls insisted on being called Scouts like their brothers; so their name differs from the name of affiliated groups...
Died. Mrs. Rebecca Jane Gilleland Fisher, 94, affectionately known as "The Mother of Texas," 30 times President of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas. Mrs. Fisher, emigrated as an infant to the Republic of Texas (1836-45). Indians once left her for dead after tomahawking her father...