Word: womens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Crowds of laboring men and poorly dressed women cried "Good old Mac!" as the tall Laborite and Daughter Ishbel passed through the Customs shed in grimy Liverpool. There were more cheers at London's grimier Euston station. But there was no such spontaneous, frenzied welcome from all classes as crippled Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden received when he brought home his piece of "Reparations Sponge Cake" from The Hague (TIME, Sept. 9). Mr. MacDonald was not "chaired" (carried in British triumph shoulder high) as was Mr. Snowden. In his empty hands he brought only Peace...
...Widow's Pensions Bill, famed Lady Cynthia Mosley, daughter of the late, great, crusty Conservative Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, made her maiden speech. A rabid Socialist M. P., she cried: "I have been getting something for nothing all my life! . . . Why shouldn't poor widowed women get something for nothing...
Distinction: "To me the most important distinction between American and British women is the practice many American married women have of working outside their homes. ... In the United States the viewpoint seems to be: 'I'll go out and earn some money if my husband and I cannot afford to employ a cook without my adding to our income with my earnings.' In Great Britain the girl whose husband is only moderately well off would say: I shall go and have a few cooking lessons so that we need not employ a cook...
...last-minute effort to get action the most famed of Mexican feminists, Dona Sofia Villa de Buentello, a handsome woman in her early 40's, called on President Emilio Portes Gil. Women she declared would make ideal pollwatchers and ballot-counters "because they would not let themselves be corrupted or suborned, nor can they hope to win high Government posts by selling themselves vilely." In a word Dona Sofia asked the President to decree 100% feminine custody of the presidential vote. He promised to ponder her suggestion, gallantly bowed her out; soon the Ministry of Interior announced: "Federal troops will...
Candidate José Vasconcelos, hero of Mrs. Morrow's lady petitioners, is pugnaciously campaigning on a platform of votes for women, no second terms for Mexican presidents, reduction of the Mexican Army, more conservative Government policies (notably curtailment of the practice of expropriating large estates and turning them over to the peasantry). In thunderous denunciation of President Portes Gil and Candidate Rubio last week, he shouted that as his chances of election grew their agents were plotting to spring a fake revolution in his name, which the Government would use as a pretext for calling off the election. Paradoxically he also...