Word: womanizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Conference speaker who dealt with the whole army of U. S. women workers, which has mounted from 5,320,000 at the Century's turn to double hat size today. Equally significant was he swelling proportion of professionals in the ranks: 9% in 1910, 40% in 1930. But woman's place in business and industry is not helped by the fact that the number of women in jobs is today greater than the number of men out of jobs. Cropping up more & more throughout the U. S. is the old theory that men have first right to earn...
...Dupuy could hardly find cause for criticism of one other woman on the same program-Dr. Lillian Moller Gilbreth. While building up Gilbreth Inc., Manhattan consulting engineers, of which she is president, Dr. Gilbreth also found time to bring up eleven children. Her Conference topic: "The Home Becomes a Major Industry...
...Fuel Co. (TIME, Sept. 7, 1931; Sept. 24); Mary Elizabeth Dillon, who rose from office-girl to president of the 12,000,000 Brooklyn Borough Gas Co.; Eleanor Medill Patterson, fiery editor of Hearst's Washington Herald; May Greer, cashier of Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., reputedly highest salaried woman in the U. S.; Minnie Williams Miller, owner and operator of Thousand Springs stock farms in Idaho; Mrs. Charles B. Knox, president of Knox Gelatine Co., and many others...
Kentucky-born 50 years ago "Missy" Meloney at 15 worked on the Washington Post, at 16 helped cover a Republican National Convention for the New York World. Like many a crack newshawk she served her hitch on the rowdy Denver Post, and was the first woman reporter ever admitted to the U. S. Senate Press Gallery. She was editor of Delineator in 1926 when her good friends the Reids invited her to take charge of the Herald Tribune magazine. The magazine is said to be a money-loser at present, but beyond doubt it pulls substantial circulation. Like Helen Reid...
Fifth Floor. Around the Herald Tribune's editorial offices and in the city room a woman is seldom seen. With rare exceptions, City Editor Stanley Walker has small use for women reporters. Of various reasons and prejudices, perhaps the most tangible is his conviction that newswomen lack versatility and are practically useless on police stories. His only female reporter is Emma Bugbee, who is indispensable for keeping tabs on Mrs. Roosevelt in Washington and out. In the sport department Janet Owen was hired, at Mrs. Reid's insistence, to cover women's games. There are no others...