Word: womens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Outside the West End Women's Club in Chicago, a mob choked the street. Inside, that night in 1946, a rabble-rousing, unfrocked Roman Catholic priest named Arthur Terminiello (since reinstated) was making a speech. On the platform with Terminiello was his soapbox bullyboy pal, Gerald L. K. Smith. Terminiello incited his audience with a fascist line of invective and bate. The mob outside hurled bricks, stink bombs, bottles and ice picks-through the windows and tried to break in the doors. Chicago police were just barely able to hold them in check and prevent a full-scale battle...
...only the style of our houses, the art of our furnishings, the clothes of our women, but our very spiritual life," wrote Father Benitez in the university's learned Review, "smells of France from every pore . . . Every year some 20,000 Argentines go through Paris, while only a hundred or so pass through Madrid. In spite of differences in language, we Argentines feel at home in Paris . . . The man born on the pampas thirsts for wide, liberal and generous horizons, and hates fanaticism as well as mental and spiritual intolerance. Is not France, which has allowed free play...
...Women at Work...
Inadequate pay was given as the main reason why young men and women are not going into science teaching. The men teachers he polled reported an average salary of $3350, and for the women the figure was $400 less...
...fine June morning, wrote Shirley Jackson, the whole village began to gather. The children, their pockets stuffed with stones, came first, and three of the boys built a pile of stones in a corner of the square. Then came the men, talking of taxes, crops, the weather. The women, wearing house dresses and sweaters, came last...