Word: maes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Edith, widow of the late John Jacob Rogers, U. S. Congressman from the Massachusetts district, announced her candidacy to succeed her husband. She emulates two San Francisco women-Mrs. Mae Nolan, Mrs. Florence Kahn-who took their husbands' seats in Congress. Humphrey O'Sullivan (rubber heels) will run against her on the Democratic ticket. All Republican aspirants retired in her favor. Both Mrs. Kahn and Mrs. Rogers are widely known and well-liked at the Capital...
Speaker Gillett and smiling Representative Longworth, his successor-to-be entered, followed by other Representatives, among them Mrs. Mae Nolan of California, retiring. Miss Alice Robertson of Oklahoma, who retired from the House two years ago was with the group. The Representatives took some time in crowding in, finding seats, and arranging themselves, or standing around the rear of the Chamber. During this interval, the Supreme Court stood in the corridor without, waiting. Ambassadors and Ministers, the Cabinet, the Chief of Naval Operations, the Commandant of the Marine Corps, the Chief of Staff of the Army, the Supreme Court were...
...inauguration saw three women at once on the floor of the Senate. The rules of both Houses admit to the privileges of the floor, members, ex-members, the Governors of states. So it happens that Representative Mae E. Nolan, ex-Representative Alice M. Robertson, Governess Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming appeared. Mrs. Ross was the first woman Governor to avail herself of her privilege...
...Mae E. Nolan of California...
...Kahn will be the second woman in the next House, the other woman member being Mrs. Mary T. Norton, New Jersey Democrat. The only woman in the present Congress is Mrs. Mae E. Nolan, who succeeded her late husband from another Congressional District in San Francisco immediately adjoining that of the Kahns...