Word: mott
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...paying particular attention, that Supreme Court Associate Justice William Orville Douglas was the President's real defense choice; that he wanted to make Douglas Secretary of State, at the head of the War Cabinet-but feared public outcry. Last week the rumor was revived, and astute Sir Will-mott Lewis, veteran correspondent of the London Times, reported that Mr. Hull might be made Chief Justice, for the retirement of Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes in June has been rumored persistently...
...first Pulitzer Prize winner published by the University Press in 1938 was the "History of American Magazines" by Frank Luther Mott...
...addition to Rowe, the other Harvard members of the club who made the trip were: Stephen P. Baldwin '43, Earle J. Carleton, Jr. '41, Chester S. Chard 2G, E. Mott Davis, Jr. 1G, Robert J. Kormfield '42, Judson T. Shaplin '42, and Harold P. Winchester...
...huge, old-fashioned ear trumpet which she aimed like a blunderbuss at the people she questioned. She discovered that only seven occupations were open to U. S. women: domestic service, keeping boarders, teaching young children, needlework, weaving, typesetting and bookbinding.* In 1840 two U. S. ladies, Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, attended a World's Anti-Slavery Conference in London, were first barred because of their sex, then permitted to listen to the proceedings from behind a screen. They walked down Great Queen Street that night, boiling mad, resolved to return to the U. S. and launch...
...Mott admits that his aceustoined time of "retiring to court the favors of Morphous" was 12 or 1 o'clock, and that he finds it "the most difficult thing to the world to rise at a proper built in the morning...