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Word: miss (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Home during the campaign, President Hoover has surprised nobody by the fewness of his appointments of women to public offices. But lately he put aside his feeling against women as officeholders long enough to listen to arguments by his Secretary of the Treasury Andrew William Mellon in behalf of Miss Annabel Matthews of Gainesville, Ga. The arguments seemed so irresistible that President Hoover last week appointed Miss Matthews to the U. S. Board of Tax Appeals ($10,000 per year), the first woman ever named to this potent buffer agency between the Treasury and the taxpayer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Appointments | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

...graduate of Brenau College in her home town, Miss Matthews taught school for a dozen years in Georgia, went to Washington 15 years ago as a clerk in the Treasury's Bureau of Internal Revenue. Ambitious, she studied law, became a double taxation expert, accompanied U. S. delegations abroad to international tax conferences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Appointments | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

When her nomination reached the Senate, Miss Matthews's experience in and connection with the Treasury were paradoxically the very things that militated against her immediate confirmation. Confirming her once, the Senate withdrew its approval for further consideration after Senator Couzens, Treasury foe, unearthed a Senate resolution barring appointments directly from the Bureau of Internal Revenue to the tax board lest the board be packed with Treasury appointees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Appointments | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

Engaged. William H. Vanderbilt of Newport, Rhode Island State Senator, nephew of Capitalist Cornelius Vanderbilt III; and Miss Anne Gordon Colby, Foxcroft graduate, daughter of Everett Colby, onetime New Jersey State Senator; at Llewellyn Park...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Dec. 23, 1929 | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

...Isle of lona, Hebrides, the dead body of Miss Emily Farnario, 30, English mental-telepathist, daughter of an Italian surgeon, was found nude, reclining on a great cross that had been cut in 'the turf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Dec. 23, 1929 | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

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