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...politics by Fridtjof Nansen, famed explorer, scientist, statesman, author; had elected, as President of their Congress, Virginia Gildersleeve,* Dean of Barnard College, Manhattan; had resolved to collect a $1,000,000 fund for international fellowships for university women; had been entertained 'by the American Legation, by Queen Maud at her country estate near Christiania, by the Christiania Municipality; had received telegraphic congratulations from Charles E. Hughes, Ramsay MacDonald, Lady Astor and many another...
...unfit, law enforcement, were among measures recommended. Birth control failed of endorsement by an adverse vote of two to one, but was recommended for study by state organizations. Miss Belle Sherwin ('daughter of the late H. A. Sherwin, paint) was elected President of the League, succeeded Mrs. Maud Wood Park who held the office for years...
Indeed Means has been recently indicted for bribery and bootlegging. In 1917 he was indicted for the murder of Mrs. Maud A. King, a millionaire widow, who was shot after going automobiling with Means. He was acquitted. Two years later he produced a will of Mrs. King which was declared a forgery. According to his testimony, he has been employed by the German, British, Mexican and U. S. Governments, besides individuals. His employment with the German Government took place under Captain Boy-Ed and Ambassador von Bernstorff before the U. S. entered the War, and for it he is reputed...
...Belmont, President of the Party, led the delegation, and introduced as spokesman Miss Maud Younger, Chairman of the Party's Congressional Committee. Miss Younger asked the President to support the Party's amendment, delicately hinting that he might mention the matter in his message to Congress. President Coolidge replied with a metaphorical bow and a veiled injunction that the Woman's Party had best do its own speaking to Congress...
...Mary Emma Woolley, President of Mt. Holyoke College; Mrs. Thomas G. Winter, President of the General Federation of Women's Clubs; Mrs. Herbert C. Hoover; Sophonisba P. Breckinridge, Dean of Civics and Philanthropy at the University of Chicago (first woman ailed to the bar of Kentucky); Mrs. Maud Wood Park, President of the National League of Women Voters, and eight or nine other prominent women...