Word: womens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...finally allowed them to get to their car. An elderly woman darted under the arm of a policeman and rapped peremptorily on the rear window. "All I want to do is shake hands with him," she told the cop defiantly. (The Veep rolled down a window and obliged.) Other women stormed into the church and briskly stripped the chancel of every last chrysanthemum, camellia and fern...
There were some changes in the cast of characters. Elderly (73), dignified Judge Henry Goddard, an appointee of President Harding, took the place of Judge Samuel Kaufman, an appointee of President Truman. A jury of eight women and four men took the places of the two women and ten men who, last summer, had so sensationally disagreed as to whether Hiss was guilty of perjury. At the defense table the Harvard-trained Boston lawyer, Claude B. Cross, had replaced the flamboyant Lloyd Paul Stryker...
...before; this time the Government promised a new witness whose words would "carry a real Sunday punch." If the charge can be proved, the vociferous, needle-nosed boss of the C.I.O. Longshoremen can be sent back to his native Australia. As in the Hiss trial, the jury is eight women and four...
...complained to the Yellow Cab Co., she could never get a taxi. The company consulted its drivers. Yep, they agreed, it was true-hardly anybody knows how to whistle down a cab anymore. Even the men stand mutely, flail the air with a newspaper and hope. "And the women never could whistle," added Cabbie Joseph Likover. "They just run along the curb and wave...
...Moscow, speaking before a convention of the International Democratic Women's Federation, U.S. Delegate Mrs. Muriel Draper assured her hearers that U.S. bosses are firing workers who are married women. Said she solemnly: in the U.S. "it is a crime to work if you love...