Word: misses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Charles Curtis of Kansas likes to have a discreet and well-trained young woman as his administrative assistant, so last week he appointed Miss Lola M. Williams of Kansas, long his senatorial secretary, to be the first woman to enjoy the majestic title of "Secretary to the President of the United States Senate...
Speaker Nicholas Longworth of the House has long had a woman secretary, able and personable Miss Mildred E. Reeves of the District of Columbia. Her bobbed hair, olive complexion and wine-colored dresses are familiar decorations of the House, where she can generally be seen in a rear seat on the Democratic side watching legislation hawk-eyed. With women in its membership, the House is used to having women on its floor; hence it admitted women secretaries long ago. But not the Senate, where men are statesmen. Women members of the House may tread there. And "grand old" Mrs. Rebecca...
Another Congressional secretary received a substantial promotion last week, when Representative Fiorello* H. La Guardia of Manhattan took Miss Marie M. Fisher, his secretary for 14 years, unto him as second wife. Congressman O. J. Kvale of Minnesota, a Lutheran minister, performed the service and the marriage was formally announced on the House floor. Two days later Representative La Guardia, swart and peppery, impeached a Federal judge...
...Buckingham, Lecturer in the School of Education and member of the Editorial Staff of Ginn and Company, will discuss these recent research studies in psychology which are of special interest to the teacher of English while Miss Alice J. Macomber, Head of the English Department of the Wellesley High School will present some of the more significant findings of the Wellesley Survey, a survey of the English work of the English work of the junior and senior high schools of Wellesley now being made under the general direction of Mr. Thomas...
...tomorrow's meeting which will be held in Huntington Hall, Rogers Building, 491 Boylston Street, in Boston, at 9.15 o'clock, the High School Section, under the chairmanship of Miss Anne Marjorie Day of the Classical High School of Providence, will discuss "Writing for an Audience...