Business: Congress

While the Bumpkin Associated Country Women of the World were being feted by the Roosevelts in Washington last week (see p. 15), a more affluent sisterhood convened in Chicago's conservative Palmer House for the first Finance Congress of Women. The Congress was sponsored by Women Investors in America, Inc., as bitter an enemy as the New Deal boasts. And from 18 states went female capitalists to extol the right of property, to exhort each other to defend their investments as they would their young.

Head of Women Investors in America, Inc. is Cathrine Curtis,...

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