Word: washington
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Henry Lewis Stimson, pillar of the New York Bar, was startled one day in 1919 to learn that his sister-in-law had been clapped into a Washington jail. She had, of course, done nothing disgraceful. "Votes for women" was a fashionable as well as a militant movement then and Mrs. Elizabeth ("Lil") White Rogers had only been doing what a number of other strong-minded ladies then thought necessary and honorable-picketing Woodrow Wilson in the White House. Dr. John Rogers, famed Manhattan surgeon, college mate (Yale '87) of Mr. Stimson (Yale '88), went and bailed...
Last week, while her distinguished brother-in-law was engrossed in great affairs of state, Mrs. Rogers went on another of her frequent trips to Washington. If she thought at all of her jail experience it was now a dim, happy memory, for women now have their votes and Mrs. Rogers' present errand was most peaceable. She went to present to a meeting of the National Woman's Party a suggestion for a convention of international law to eliminate discrimination against women in matters of nationality...
...Declared Miss Gail Laughlin. Maine legislator: "There may be too much lobbying going on in Washington, but there is not nearly enough of the right kind." She urged more lobbying for the "20th Amendment" (equality of the sexes in all things before...
...TIME, April 1) which in effect left the U. S. entirely free to divorce the World Court instantly at any time after the final diplomatic marriage takes place. The marriage is not yet, the signature of Attaché Moffat was a mere betrothal. There remains U. S. Senate ratification. Washington wiseacres wagered that another year would pass before this is achieved...
...shoul d call Gibson a contemptible little bounder," drawled English Mrs. Litvinov not long afterward, and she had a great many things in mind. They bear importantly on the strained relations between Washington and Moscow, relations which creaked last week when Statesman Stimson politely reminded Russia and China in identic notes of their obligation under the Kellogg Pact not to fight, only to be told by Comrade Litvinov with blazing scorn to mind his business...