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Isabella Beecher Hooker (1822-1907) was a pioneer Suffragist, called by Susan B. Anthony "The soundest constitutional lawyer in the country.'' She stormed the Senate Judiciary Committee, resolute in black silk, and in 1888 assembled in Washington the first international convention of women...
...date of 1620 when into Virginia were brought those famous ninety maids who were to make the plantation "grow in generations and not to be pieced out without", the tale of heroism, progress and emancipation of womanhood is one which cannot fail to interest even the most ardent anti-suffragist...
...Edmund Gros. head of the American Hospital, hurried downstairs to where a group of reporters huddled in the half-light. He said: "The grandest lady of France and America died with a suffragist smile. There were no last words." Thus last week died Alva Smith Vanderbilt Belmont, of bronchitis and heart disease, having lain ill since a paralytic stroke last...
...into every dialect but the Scandinavian. He expands the patter-song "I've Got a Little List" to include the more recent nuisances. Even in Gilbert's day this song was progressively altered to include the passing parade of follies, such as the "scorching bicyclist" and the "lovely suffragist; so that for his inclusion of the "megaphonic crooner" and the "prohibitionist," Mr. Moulan may claim traditional carte-blanche--indeed, D'Oyly-Carte--blanche...
Died. Alice Mary Robertson, 77, second woman to serve in Congress (1921-23); of cancer; penniless, in Muskogee, Okla. A pronounced anti-suffragist, she refused a woman secretary while holding office, said it was "a man's job." During her campaign she made no speeches, announced the following platform: "First, I am a Christian; second, I am an American, and third, I am a Republican and a standpatter...