“INDEPENDENT WOMEN’S LEAGUE” PRESS RIBBON FOR 1940 “CLARE BOOTHE MEETING.”
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Auction #200 - Part I
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Item Description
1.5x5.75” dated for Nov. 1, 1940 also with serial “No. 42.” Trivial traces of dust soil and a faint fold line. Clare Boothe became interested in women’s suffrage movement as a young woman in 1919. She also became a social activist, journalist (Managing Editor of Vanity Fair) and playwright. In 1929, she married Henry Luce, influential publisher of Time, Fortune and LIFE. We can’t find anything on the group that sponsored this event, but likely “Nixon Theater” was the one in Philadelphia. In 1940, after the war started, she spent 4 months in Europe as a journalist for her husband’s LIFE Magazine. Likely this meeting was to share her observations with members of the “Independent Women’s League.” Clare Boothe Luce also became a Connecticut Representative to Congress in 1942. In 1947, after her second term, she wrote articles about her conversion to Roman Catholicism and she became a well-known anti-Communist and political conservative supporting Ike, Goldwater and Reagan. Ribbon is the only example known to us. Rare.
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