National Affairs: A Dozen Firsts

A year ago the National League of Women Voters held its annual convention in Baltimore. By its invitation a conference of Pan-American women also assembled there at that time. An inquiring South American delegate, Senorita Mandujano, of Chile, asked for a list of the twelve greatest women in the United States of whom she wished to write for the South American public. The League consented to supply the list.

But when the attempt was made such a flood of female greatness appeared, that the League was swamped and impotent to choose without offense and injustice....

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