Word: ruth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Engaged. Ruth Brady, daughter of the late famed Manhattan financier James Cox Brady; to the Honorable Michael Simon Scott of London, brother and heir presumptive to John Scott, fourth Earl of Eldon...
Many a flat joke was made about the next Congress not being "Ruthless" and about this being the campaign of the four Ruths, since Baseballer George Herman ("Babe") Ruth was stumping for the Brown Derby (see p. 9). The three ladies were...
...Ruth Bryan Owen of Florida, daughter of the late Great Commoner. She has her father's face and something of his frame. Modern conditions required her to substitute practical thinking for the passionate oratory that might have been her inherited forte. Long before the Smith tariff declaration at Louisville, she found it necessary to declare for Protection, which her father fought so long. Florida has changed since the Commoner first invested in its real estate and conducted prayer meetings there. Northern business men and methods opened a new field for northern political ideas and attitudes. Ruth Bryan Owen...
...Ruth Baker Pratt of New York, widow of a Republican financier, campaigned with the experience of a society clubwoman who had come through the rough-and-tumble of big-city politics. Even Manhattan's "silk stocking" district has its seamy side. Mrs. Pratt encountered Tammany methods within her own party before securing her nomination. A somewhat amateurish city alderman, she was opposed for nomination by a highly professional State Assemblyman, Phelps Phelps. Her primary victory seemed due to her astute counsellors more than to her social appeal. The seat in Congress which she sought was held by one Tammanyite...
...Ruth Hanna McCormick of Illinois, widow of Senator Medill McCormick, daughter of the late great Senator Marcus Alonzo Hanna of Ohio, was, although not yet a grandmother, much further advanced in the political art than Bryan's and Manhattan's Ruths. She was to be the first woman Congressman-at-large, the nearest thing to being elected Senator, which no woman has ever been. Her statewide string of women's clubs is the largest political machine ever built up by a woman in the U. S. It causes no end of worry to Senator Deneen, whom...