WOMEN: Democracy's Distaff

In 1928 President Hoover received mighty support from the nation's women. But so much help had come to the Roosevelt cause this year from the distaff side of the Electorate that there was talk of putting a woman in the Roosevelt cabinet. Candidates:

Mrs. Isabella Greenway. She operates large copper interests in Arizona left her by her late husband. Longtime intimate of the Roosevelts. she was a bridesmaid when they were married in Manhattan on St. Patrick's Day 1905 in the presence of T. R. and to the accompaniment...

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