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Little business man what now? Washington, D.C., March 4. President Roosevelt's recent Little Business Men's Conference will come in for a bit of good-natured jibing at the Women's National Press Club Annual Dinner and Stunt Party at the Willard Hotel, Saturday, March 5. The ladies of the Administration, headed by Mrs. Roosevelt, will be honored guests at the party. Mrs. Fletcher Howarth will impersonate Secretary Roper and the Little Business Men in the skit "nice work if you can get it" to be staged at the affair, 3/4/38 Note: this photograph is for release to morning papers of Sunday, March 6, 1938

Little business man what now? Washington, D.C., March 4. President Roosevelt's recent Little Business Men's Conference will come in for a bit of good-natured jibing at the Women's National Press Club Annual Dinner and Stunt Party at the Willard Hotel, Saturday, March 5. The ladies of the Administration, headed by Mrs. Roosevelt, will be honored guests at the party. Mrs. Fletcher Howarth will impersonate Secretary Roper and the Little Business Men in the skit "nice work if you can get it" to be staged at the affair, 3438 Note: this photograph is for release to morning papers of Sunday, March 6, 1938

Women's Press Club skit instructs future first ladies on how to get along. Washington, D.C., March 11. America's next first lady, whoever she may be, was last night instructed on how to be successful in a skit presented by the Women's National Press Club during an annual stunt party. The skit runs through different satiric phases of women in national politics and ends with the president being offered the job of president of Mars with the biggest WPA project yet--to fix up a wireless so that Mrs. Roosevelt can wire her column back to earth. Wives of practically every contendor for the presidental nomination were guests, and Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt spoke off-the-record to the members and guests. 1 - Mrs. Smith goes to Washington as a new senator, and learns her first lessons from the taxi driver who picks her up at Union Station. '..Don't you keep a letter file-keep an incinerator, Senator.' Driver, Katherine Wilson of the Des Moines Register and Tribune; Mrs. Smith, Emma Budbee, N.Y. Herald-Tribune

City cowgirls. Washington, D.C., March 11. City cowgirls now, but these member of Washington's younger set, Miss Cuyler Schwartz (left) daughter of H.H. Schwartz of Wyoming, and Miss Agnes Doherty, neice of Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney, also of Wyoming, will go native again the latter part of this month when they will give an exhibition of typical Western riding at the society circus at Fort Myer. Virginia Proceeds from the circus will be given to charity, 3111937

Women's Press Club skit instructs future first ladies on how to get along. Washington, D.C., March 11. America's next first lady, whoever she may be, was last night instructed on how to be successful in a skit presented by the Women's National Press Club during an annual stunt party. The skit runs through different satiric phases of women in national politics and ends with the president being offered the job of president of Mars with the biggest WPA project yet--to fix up a wireless so that Mrs. Roosevelt can wire her column back to earth. Wives of practically every contendor for the presidental nomination were guests, and Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt spoke off-the-record to the members and guests. 1 - Mrs. Smith goes to Washington as a new senator, and learns her first lessons from the taxi driver who picks her up at Union Station. '..Don't you keep a letter file-keep an incinerator, Senator.' Driver, Katherine Wilson of the Des Moines Register and Tribune; Mrs. Smith, Emma Budbee, N.Y. Herald-Tribune

Women's Press Club skit instructs future first ladies on how to get along. 5. Delegates to the nominating convention include 679,342. 1-2 honest to God newspaperwomen, not counting socialite chiselers, meeting to nominate the next first lady who may pick out her own president. All possible ladies are considered. They attempt to discover if 'Mrs. Roosevelt will settle down, if Mrs. Taft is on a diet, and who Mrs. Dewey was. Mary Johnson of Time, city room gal-bab Lincoln, Washington Times-Herald, Club Editor, Corrinne Frazier, WPA, Correspondent, Mrs. Elizabeth May Craig, Portland, Maine, Press-Herald Chairman, Bess Furman, Furman Features, Political Writer, Malvina Lindsay, Washington Post Woman's Page Editor, Hope Riding Miller, The Washington Post Society editor. Do not release before March 11, 1940

Wives of Gridiron Club members to entertain Mrs. Roosevelt while men entertain President. Washington, D.C., Dec. 10. Each year, President Roosevelt rides to the 13th floor of the National Press Building to see himself and other leading lights in official Washington lampooned unmercifully. Wives of members of the Gridiron Club which sponsors the affair, got together and within the last few years have held a party of similar nature at the White House for Mrs. Roosevelt, with members of the Gridiron Widows putting on a skit to poke fun at wives of leading figures on a 'Rancho 40' skit, with Mrs. Raymond Clapper, wife of Columnist Clapper, cracking the whip as Ringmaster. 1- A couple of dark horses - and Mrs. Farley by proxy. 'Uncle Jim' Farley, holding aloft the message that 'Mrs. Farley scratched,' stands like a [...] colossus over the two dark horses, John L. Lewis and Clark Gable. Mrs. Farley's proxy is Mrs. Ray Henle, Lewis is Mrs. Jim Berryman, and Gable is Mrs. W.F. Raymond

City cowgirls. Washington, D.C., March 11. City cowgirls now, but these member of Washington's younger set, Miss Cuyler Schwartz (left) daughter of H.H. Schwartz of Wyoming, and Miss Agnes Doherty, neice of Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney, also of Wyoming, will go native again the latter part of this month when they will give an exhibition of typical Western riding at the society circus at Fort Myer. Virginia Proceeds from the circus will be given to charity, 3/11/1937

Announce formation of 22 additional Women's Republican Clubs. Washington, D.C., Dec. 2. Following a meeting today of Miss Marion E. Martin, left, Executive Director, and Mrs. James R. Arneill Jr., President of the National Federation of Women's Republican Clubs, announcement was made of the acceptance by the Federation Advisory Committee of 22 additional clubs. This makes a total of 105 now in the Federation since its formation last September. Miss Martin is Assistant Chairman of the Republican National Committee in charge of woman's activities

News girls poke fun at administration at annual stunt party. Washington, D.C., March 14. Poking fun at the administration is the theme of the skit 'Nice Work if I Can Get It,' which members of the Women's National Press Club will stage at their annual dinner and stunt party Saturday night, March 5. Mrs. Roosevelt and the ladies of the official set will be guests at the party. In this photograph, Hope Miller of the Washington Post, as Miss Lotta Business; and Ford Esther Tufty, (right) of the Michigan Press, taking the part of Franklin Delayno, play important parts in the skit

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[Assignment: 48-DPA-N_DOUI_Speak_Gavin] Department of the Interior University-sponsored presentation, [at the National Press Club], by Dr. James Gavin, [author of Dr. Gavin's Health Guide for African Americans] [48-DPA-N_DOUI_Speak_Gavin_DOI_0752.JPG]

Aux cafes chantant[s] = At the singing cafe vaudeville skit in one scene

Polish Minister of Industry talks to press club. Washington, D.C., May 10. Antoni Roman, Polish Minister of Industry and Commerce, was a speaker today before the Washington Press Club. He told members, in an 'on the record' speech, that Poland is quite able to take care of itself. Left to right: Roman, Arthur Hachton, President of the press club, and Count Jerzy Potocki, Ambassador from Poland

Press Club march - Public domain sheet music. Piano, march.

Esther Kitomi Kaneko, director of the Kobo Cottage Orphanage, welcomes US Navy (USN) Sailors (not shown) during a community service project conducted by personnel from the USN Aircraft Carrier USS KITTY HAWK (CV 63). During the project, 17 Sailors participated in singing, dancing and drawing at Yokosuka Naval Base (NB), Japan (JPN)

Poke bonnet, 19th century - Public domain dedication photo

Poke bonnet, 19th century costume

Poke bonnet, 19th century - Public domain dedication. Metropolitan Museum of Art image.

Poke bonnet, 19th century costume

[Design drawing for stained glass window with nine female Biblical figures: Sarah, Rebekah, Rachel, Miriam, Deborah, Huldah, Ruth, Judith, and Esther]

Eleanor Roosevelt at Lady Hydari Club

Talking the Italian situation over. Washington, D.C., July 21. Italy's highest ranking citizen in the United States and New York City's Mayor of [...] together while attending the Press Club luncheon for Howard Hughes, Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia of New York, left and Ambassador Fulvio Suvich, talking things over, 7/21/38

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