Word: womening
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bedraggled group of Gastonia, N. C., strikers appeared in Washington to tell their grievances. They were snubbed by the National Women's Trade Union League on the ground that they were not affiliated with the American Federation of Labor. Fourteen-year-old Binnie Green, who weighs 69 pounds, told of getting $4.95 for 60 hours' work a week in the mills. North Carolina's ponderous Senator Overman patted her on the head, and said: "This child ought to be in school." Then he backed away into the Senate, there to renew his warnings of Communistic agitation...
...woman how to control conception (TIME. April 39), were discharged in magistrate's (police) court. The magistrates decided that New York State laws permit a doctor to give birth control instruction when the doctor acts in good faith. Instruction may be to unmarried as well as married women, so far as the New York law indicates. Unsatisfied with freedom alone, the Stone group insisted upon knowing who instigated their arrest. They suspected Roman Catholics and said so. Police Commissioner Grover Aloysius Whalen avoided a direct answer. But he demoted the policewoman who had led the raid against the birth...
Another reversal this year was the cartoon prize. The selecting committee chose "Women Taken in Bootlegging" by Daniel Robert Fitzpatrick of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. The board decided on "Tammany" by Rollin Kirby of the New York World...
Says Lippmann: "What most distinguishes the generation who have approached maturity since the debacle of idealism at the end of the War is not their rebellion against the religion and moral code of their parents, but their disillusionment with their own rebellion. It is common for young men and women to rebel, but that they should rebel sadly and with out faith in their own rebellion, that they should distrust the new freedom no less than the old certainties-that is something of a novelty...
...Radcliffe news and notice organ makes its appearance but weekly, although no official statement has yet been made in regard to a change of name. Nevertheless it is time for the coinage of a new term--"Radcliffe Indifference." It is magnificent, such scornful treatment of a tradition unique among women's college papers. But perhaps the most significant angle to the whole affair is the weight which it lends to the rumour that the scholastic standard of Radcliffe College is being gradually raised to that of her older brother...