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...started off by barnstorming Munich. During one address, a spectator demanded "Why don't you go home to your kitchen and cook-pot?" Miss Brucher constantly campaigned that women, ousted from politics under Hitler, should enter the government field...

Author: By Mary CHANNING Stokes, | Title: German Woman Official at Harvard | 11/8/1949 | See Source »

...knew as little about cooking as you do about politics," she told her hocklers, "I would be ashamed." The newspapers picked up the quip and Miss Brucher found herself widely quoted...

Author: By Mary CHANNING Stokes, | Title: German Woman Official at Harvard | 11/8/1949 | See Source »

...Miss Brucher's career started with a doctor's degree under a Nobel prize winner at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich. Government is her main interest and she finds Littauer "intellectually stimulating." Following up her class work she has interviewed Boston mayorality candidates and investigated the Cambridge city-manager government; with possible recall to her council chair a constant threat she is jamming her time with activities...

Author: By Mary CHANNING Stokes, | Title: German Woman Official at Harvard | 11/8/1949 | See Source »

Working for the American-founded "Die Neve Zeitung" she first dealt with political problems. In 1947, when the French occupation zone in Germany was behind a "silken curtain" and practically inaccessible to correspondents, Miss Brucher some how procured a passport from American authorities and muckraked the French administration there for her newspaper...

Author: By Mary CHANNING Stokes, | Title: German Woman Official at Harvard | 11/8/1949 | See Source »

Quick to pick up new ideas, Miss Brucher already sees in America's League of Women Voters a political weapon that might be used in Germany. In legislative halls, she has plugged for equal rights for the sexes and pushed through a bill giving equality in rights and pay to women office holders...

Author: By Mary CHANNING Stokes, | Title: German Woman Official at Harvard | 11/8/1949 | See Source »

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