Word: suffraget
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...Finley Johnson (Helen Gould) Shepard, Dr. Howard Atwood Kelly of Johns Hopkins (TIME. April 25), Dr. Mark Allison Matthews, famed Seattle pastor, Board Chairman Henry Parsons Crowell of Quaker Oats Co. They were not present in Columbus last week, but the following were : Christabel Pankhurst, daughter of the late Suffraget Emmeline Pankhurst. Said she-"The world crisis is pointing to nearness of His coming because it fulfills closely His prediction of a crisis to precede His coming." William Bell Riley, 71, executive secretary and co-founder of the Fundamentals Association. Patriarchal, resonant, he has debated many a time on Evolution...
...Clarence C. Dill, wife of the U. S. Senator from Washington, famed 20 years ago as the suffraget "General" Rosalie Gardiner Jones, asked a New York court to compel a division of her family's rich holdings on Long Island, New York, Arkansas and Washington, left by her father the late Oliver Livingston Jones. Co-executors protested that none of the parcels would be sold profitably because of the Depression. To that Mrs. Dill replied the property at Cold Spring Harbor, L. I. could easily be sold at a profit because Cold Spring is a "millionaire colony...
...March 10, 1914 one May Richardson, famed militant suffraget, strode masterfully into the National Gallery, ad- vanced grimly upon a beautiful Venus by Velasquez. It was known as the Rokeby Venus because it had hung for generations in Rokeby Hall, Yorkshire, was purchased by the nation in 1905 for $225,000. March 1914 was the height of the suffraget agitation in Britain: ladies were chaining themselves to the railings of the Houses of Parliament, shouting themselves hoarse on street corners, smashing windows on Bond Street. Suffraget May Richardson had already distinguished herself by setting fire to the Countess of Carlisle...
...court Suffraget Richardson announced the whole affair was a protest against the incarceration of Chief Suffraget Emmeline Pankhurst, at the time on a hunger strike in Holloway Jail...
Next week she will be in England sardonically to watch Government officials help unveil a statue of Emmeline Pankhurst, their erstwhile suffraget heckler...