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Medill McCormick, chairman of the National Congressional Committee, sent one of the national workers, Miss Lavinia Engle, to assist. This year Mr. Heard, president of the Heard National Bank, gave the league the use of a large front room on its first office floor. On Feb. 13, 1913, the Political Equality Club of Lake Helen was formed with Mrs. S. A. Armstrong president and Mrs.
And Dick Prescott was there, but gathering up his writing materials as though about to go. The chairman waited in silence until Prescott had passed out of the Board room. After the clerk had closed the door the chairman announced: "The Board is now in executive session. Dr. Thornton, we will listen to the matter which we understand you wish to bring before us for consideration." Composedly Dr.
No, it ain't a higher wage scale she's strikin' for. She's been boosted three times durin' the last six months, until she's probably the best paid lady cook on Long Island. And she ain't demandin' an eight-hour day, or recognition as chairman of the downstairs soviet.
Appelby was mayor, and Moses Sagger was chairman of the Selectmen. Mr. Sagger had an ambition to be mayor the next year, and he was working to that end. "Well, Herbert," said Mrs. Dare to her son at dinner the day following the fire, "I hope you don't get up to go to any more midnight alarms." "Why, mother?" "Because I was worried to death about you.
Miller was elected chairman for two years. LEGISLATIVE ACTION. After a lapse of 26 years a second attempt was made in 1911 under Mrs. Anna M. Orme, as legislative chairman, to secure a resolution to refer to the voters a woman suffrage amendment to the State constitution.
"She has gone away under circumstances that usually call for condolence with the husband. But I gave my consent." The chairman looked as if he had not apprehended the remark. "What I say is quite true," Phillotson continued testily. "She asked leave to go away with her lover, and I let her. Why shouldn't I? A woman of full age, it was a question of her own conscience not for me.
John A. Poor was the chief promoter of the European and North American Railway and the chairman of the committee of arrangements of the Portland Convention. The opinion that was entertained of Mr. Wilmot by those who were closely associated with him in the work of Reform was well expressed by the late Mr. "A great luminary," says Mr. Fenety, "set in semi-darkness on the day that Mr.
'Gintlemen, says he, 'what can I do f'r ye? he says. 'We come, says th' chairman iv th' comity, 'f'r to offer ye, he says, 'th' r-run iv th' town, he says. 'We have held out, he says, 'as long as we cud, he says. 'But, he says, 'they'se a limit to human endurance, he says. 'We can withstand ye no longer, he says. 'We surrinder.
In the following year he became the chairman of the Administrative Reform Association, and although the league had at first been highly successful, and aided much in awaking public attention to the miscarriages and mismanagement in the Crimea, yet, under this fatal presidency, it became speedily and ingloriously defunct.
I have addressed larger audiences since then; but I have certainly never been puffed up with such a sense of my own power and value as I had in writing those pompous, boyish essays, in which I trounced Disraeli, and instructed Gladstone and the chairman of the local Board of Guardians in the art of administration.
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