Word: womening
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From 1924 to 1928, while president of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, Mrs. John D. Sherman wrote 24 magazine articles on home equipment and kindred topics. Last week the Federal Trade Commission, investigating activities of public utilities companies, discovered that Mrs. Sherman had received $600 apiece for these articles. The payer was the National Electric Light Association, publicity organization for U. S. power companies. Testifying before the commission, Mrs. Sherman said that from 1924 to 1928 the N. E. L. A. had contributed $80,000 to the General Federation of Women's Clubs. Last week...
Graduates of small colleges, the analysts found, live longer than graduates of big colleges. College men & women live longer on the average than the non-collegiate population. If 100 is taken as the national standard, the college graduate death rate...
...Interior gave as her qualifications for this position business ability, political experience, services to the party. Widow of the late Alvin T. Hert of Kentucky, for many years National Committeeman, Mrs. Hert has been since 1924 vice chairman of the Republican National Committee, State chairman of the Republican women of Kentucky, and in charge of organization of Republican women throughout the country. She is also chairman of the board of the American Creosoting Co., founded by her husband, and is said to have increased its business 30% within a few years after his death. During the presidential campaign, Dr. Work...
Believers in the Hert rumor apparently felt that a woman in the Cabinet would please women voters, and that Mrs. Hert was the logical woman to be chosen. The general opinion is, however, that the rumor has little basis. It was noticed that Dr. Work, widely quoted as the chief exponent of the Hert cause, last week issued a sharp statement deploring "publicity"' given to "conjectures" concerning the Cabinet, and disclaiming any influence in its selection. The doctor was so emphatic as to suggest the inference that he had been scolded again...
...show how various European photographers get their portrait effects, Mr. Speaight posed himself for 18 of them. He donned a Little Lord Fauntleroy costume for a famed maker of child photographs, he dressed as a woman for a taker of women's photographs; posing for a man who made portrait studies of five Lord Chancellors he put on wig and robe...