Word: swanbeck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Clubs (11 million members); Mrs. Zaio Woodford Schroeder, a practicing lawyer from Grosse Pointe, Mich, and the federation's international-affairs chairman; Mrs. Gilbert F. Loebs of Waterville, Me., wife of Colby College professor and chairman of the federation's consumer committee; and Mrs. Car E. Swanbeck of Huron, Ohio, a grandmother and Republican candidate for the Ohio legislature...
Tour of Duty. The four clubwomen had landed from a DC-6 at Rio's inter national airport with pencils and notebooks ready, determined to get the facts. Each had a few well-chosen words for airport interviewers, and "Grannie" Swanbeck, like a veteran politico, hugged the first Brazilian baby in sight. The visitors tasted their first Brazilian black coffee and duly noted that a small cup cost 6?. After that they firmly told their hosts to tear up the leisurely itinerary that had been prepared. Instead of sightseeing or sambaing in nightclubs with gallants from the Chamber...
...Chapman promised the coffeemen: "Our first duty will be to tell American housewives that the [frost blight] reports are true." Mrs. Swanbeck summed up: "The hearts of women beat the same all over the world. We are going to keep our friendship, and it is not going to dissolve in a cup of coffee...