Word: chapman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President, will the Senator yield?" is the most frequently heard question on the Senate floor. Despite its familiarity, West Virginia's droning Chapman Revercomb faltered in mid-speech when he heard it one day last week. The polite parliamentary request came from a citizen in a rear gallery...
Died. Carrie Chapman Catt, 88, militant matriarch of world feminists, successor to the late Susan B. Anthony as leader of the fight for U.S. women's suffrage, founder of the National League of Women Voters; in New Rochelle, N.Y. After the suffragettes' 1920 victory (the 19th Amendment), she looked around for new arenas, crusaded vigorously for world peace, meanwhile kept a sharp eye on women's rights at home & abroad...
Readers of '47's first issue would probably feel that what some of the nation's top writers "have always yearned" to tell them wasn't much. Articles by Jay Franklin, Raymond Swing and Roy Chapman Andrews had the old familiar ring. The photographic art spreads in color (Will Connell, David Eisendrath) and the gag cartoons (Alan Dunn, Gardner Rea) weren't up to the average of the people who made them...
...State he saw Harold Lloyd in The Freshman, bought a yellow slicker and an open Ford, and was pledged by Sigma Chi, which never got over it. The fraternity has since elected him-like Cartoonist McCutcheon before him-to its select group of "Significant Sigs" (others: Booth Tarkington, Roy Chapman Andrews and George...
...Paris, bureaumen had thoughtfully tucked away such choice items as truffles, chestnuts and chocolates, and William Chapman's two small sons, Benny and Johnnie, eagerly awaited the appearance of their new Santa, Père Noel. In Buenos Aires, Christmas was certain to be one of the hottest days of summer, and most of the TIME staff would undoubtedly top off the day by going swimming. It was just as certain to be a white Christmas in Moscow, where Bureau Chief Craig Thompson and his wife were pointing for a Christmas Eve party at Spasso House, home...