Word: clubwoman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Forest, has grown a Foundation for Architecture and Landscape Architecture. The late Edward Lamed Ryerson. steel & iron man, left money for the movement. Active as officers are Walter Stanton Brewster (broker), Tiffany Blake (Chicago Tribune editorial writer), Alfred E. Hamill (Hathaway & Co., paper), Mrs. John E. Geary (North Shore clubwoman). Director is Stanley Hart White, associate professor of landscape architecture at the University of Illinois. Students are picked yearly from the architectural schools of five Midwestern institutions-Iowa State College, the universities of Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, and Armour Institute of Technology (Chicago). They study in the summer session under architects...
...impossible to believe that you, Mr. Rosenwald [Julius Rosenwald, philanthropist, Chairman of Sears Roebuck] with your record of benefactions to humanity, and you, Mrs. Sherman [Mrs. John Dickinson Sherman, clubwoman, onetime (1924-26) head of General Federation of Women's Clubs] known and trusted by millions of American women, believe that the National Broadcasting Co. is rendering a public service when it permits young men and women to be told . . . that it is 'healthy' to smoke cigarets. It is impossible to believe that you, Dr. Macfarland [Dr. Charles Stedman Macfarland, General Secretary of the Federal Council of the Churches...
...Ruth Baker Pratt of New York, widow of a Republican financier, campaigned with the experience of a society clubwoman who had come through the rough-and-tumble of big-city politics. Even Manhattan's "silk stocking" district has its seamy side. Mrs. Pratt encountered Tammany methods within her own party before securing her nomination. A somewhat amateurish city alderman, she was opposed for nomination by a highly professional State Assemblyman, Phelps Phelps. Her primary victory seemed due to her astute counsellors more than to her social appeal. The seat in Congress which she sought was held by one Tammanyite...
...clubwoman done so, Katie Smith would not have cared. She had just come back from New England, where she had gone with Al; and in the course of that stupendous sally, so many women had cheered her that she was now incapable of feeling snubbed...
...chatting and gesticulating, brightly smiling and bowing congregation that buzzed around the Astor last week, were professional women extraordinary. They had come from far & wide for an exposition of artifacts and manufactures produced by women; to make speeches about women's rise in the world. Many an enthusiastic clubwoman was there...