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Addressing the annual meeting of the Travelers Aid Society of New York, Perle Mesta, the U.S.'s party-throwing Minister to Luxembourg, announced: "I love my job and I'm not seeking any other post...
Behind her and the proposed 22nd Amendment were Bess Truman, Perle Mesta, women's organizations by the score-her own National Woman's Party, the General Federation of Women's Clubs, the 'American Medical Women's Association, the Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic, the National Association of Colored Women. Miss Paul and her cohorts rapped on Senate doors, buttonholed Senators. Their weapons were whatever came to hand-documents, dialectics, plain talk and implied political threats. Some, like Ernestine Bellamy, distant relative of Edward (Looking Backward) Bellamy, splendidly flashed the most invincible feminine...
Seven U.S. Senators on a European fact-finding tour reached Luxembourg to find U.S. Minister Perle Mesta as good a hostess as ever. Mrs. Mesta greeted Oklahoma's Senator Elmer Thomas with a kiss, then whisked him and his colleagues through a giddy two-day whirl culminating in a 55 guest dinner party. To round out the welcome, an overexuberant Luxembourg band serenaded the Senators (four of them from the South) with a lusty performance of Marching through Georgia...
...process of wooing the woman voter is a little different, in one respect, from that of winning the support of the recalcitrant and suspicious male-words are sometimes not enough. Having made Georgia Neese Clark Treasurer of the U.S. and having sent diamond-studded Mrs. Perle Mesta off as minister to Luxembourg, the Democrats last week offered U.S. females further evidence of trust and affection. Mrs. Eugenie Anderson of Red Wing, Minn, was named Ambassador to Denmark...
...Perle Mesta," reported the Luxembourg correspondent of the London Daily Mail, "is in a fair way to blunder a path into the hearts of the 300,000 people of this microscopic Grand Duchy . . . Impulsive, dictatorial, generous, fussy and friendly, Mrs. Mesta approached her job like the task of arranging a rather large tea-party complicated by the presence of some quaint foreigners . . . The people of Luxembourg are pleased as punch to have her here...