Word: chairwoman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Inter-American Commission of Women (a sort of handmaid organization to the Pan American Union). Miss Stevens' job does not pay anything. The commission cannot actually do anything-except find an occasional fact, present it to higher authorities. But since 1933 many a scheme to oust her as chairwoman has been hatched...
Things dragged on. Latin American diplomats dodged the issue many a time until last week. Then Pan American Union's governing board performed a judgment of Solomon. Ignoring both camps, they chose as the new chairwoman lissome Señora Ana Rosa de Martinez Guerrero of Argentina, who has no commitments in either camp and speaks no English, is not expected to visit Washington often...
...Government-sponsored bill abolishing criminal floggings. She found to her surprise that not only were the majority of the women for flogging, but positively rude about it. Throughout her remarks they chorused "No!" "Oh!" "Shame!" Lady Astor, no mean heckler herself, asked for silence first applause afterward. The chairwoman asked for traditional British fair play. "What about assaults on women and children?" screamed the female Conservatives. The Astor comeback was not up to standard: "The more I see of you, the more I hear of you, it is obvious that you are getting a bit mixed." The ladies clapped rhythmically...
...formula for getting along with male colleagues is: "Don't disagree with men unless it's necessary. You can have your own way without antagonizing them." Prior to succeeding the late Labor Chairman, Massachusetts' Congressman William Patrick Connery Jr., Mrs. Norton was chairwoman of the House's District of Columbia Committee, the unofficial "Mayor of Washington...
...With hands which are usually busy knitting, Chairwoman Mrs. Henry Bourne Joy, a motherly soul who is president of the Needlework Guild of America and whose husband used to run Packard Motor Car Co. in Detroit, took up a pencil and rapped on a table for order. Her signal got the attention of a potent segment of the nation's womanpower...