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Word: woman (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...colleges in the U. S. were bestowing honorary degrees on such personages as William Lyon Phelps, Evangeline Booth and Major Bowes (see p. 58), without honoring Dorothy Thompson. This week Foreign Correspondent Anne O'Hare McCormick was introduced at the New York World's Fair as the Woman of 1939, a distinction which might have gone to Dorothy Thompson. Seven million, five hundred and fifty-five thousand readers of 196 newspapers scanned them in vain for the column called On The Record, whose author is Dorothy Thompson. Five and a half million radio listeners who on Monday nights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Cartwheel Girl | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

...brother and sister into the parlor and make them bow and curtsey to visitors. One day Dorothy came in doing a cartwheel, displaying her panties to six ladies of the Methodist Church. That habit has persisted and is one reason why mercurial Miss Thompson will never be the first woman President, although she and Eleanor Roosevelt are undoubtedly the most influential women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Cartwheel Girl | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

Dorothy Thompson is the U. S. clubwoman's woman. She is read, believed and quoted by millions of women who used to get their political opinions from their husbands, who got them from Walter Lippmann. Besides her columns she has written six books, ranging from her famous 100%-wrong guess on Germany in 1932 (I Saw Hitler) to her most recent effort to educate the U. S. electorate (Dorothy Thompson's Political Guide). Her opinion is valued by Congressional committees. She has been given the degree of Doctor of Humane Letters by six universities, including Columbia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Cartwheel Girl | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

Handsome, persuasive Dr. Catharine Macfarlane, only woman professor of gynecology in the country, heads the group of women doctors who examine the volunteers. Last week Dr. Macfarlane proudly summed up the first year's accomplishments of the Cancer Research Volunteers' Clinic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cancer Volunteers | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

...Headed by famed Surgeon Chevalier Jackson, Woman's Medical College was founded in 1850, has graduated over 1,600 women doctors -general practitioners, gynecologists, pediatricians, institution and research workers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cancer Volunteers | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

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