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9Women Win 50-Year Battle to Get Senate Gallery Rest RoomWASHINGTON fT.P)—The ladies with a quill pen, then hasten out vho write the news Thursday won, again. blushing. That was all right a 50-year-old battle with their with the correspondent s. They brethren for a retiring room of even let women join their assocla-thelr own in the senate press gal* tlon, and that was where theyi made their big mistake.They achieved this victory only‘We want a private rest rcom,after Chairman Matthew M. Neely the ladies told them finally.oi the rules committee hsd appoint ed a subcommittee consisting of Senators Royal S. Copeland, Frederick Steiwer and Harry Byrd tohold secret hearings on the necessity of a wash basin, a soft leather couch and a dressing table for the exclusive use of the gals of thepress.The gallant Copelsnd-Steiwer* Byrd triumverate capitulated to the pleas of the embattled women and produced 12,000 from the limbo of an old construction appropriation to quiet their demands for equality.“You don’t need It.” snapped the standing commute* of correspondents.The Misses Klizabeth M. Craig, Ruth Finney, Doris Fieeson and Ruby Black, whose dispatches are printed In newspapers the nation over, took their troubles to Chairman Neely.•’You'll have to wait a year, at least,” the chairman said.We won’t wait another minute,’’ the ladies retorted.The subcommittee held tw*o hearings, agreed with the ladies as to their needs and said: Shhbhhh!”Every whang of the carpenter’s! The gentlemen of the pres* knew hammer thus was music to the|i.othing of the plan until Thursday cars of the 33 accredited women | when they came upon a carpenter correspondents—and the knocking. building a room, where their desksrtf Q hi H £%*• f a # ah * /I aa *• t, ^ .1 l. , . i . J 2 ti* . iof a bitter fate on the door of the tub men who have kept the press gallery these many years a mascu line headquarters.As far back as 50 years ago an occasional woman writer in bustlesbad be«m standing Wednesday.What is this? the correspond e/its asked.A ladies* rest room, the carpenter said.Goodness gracious,” the coi-would edge her w-ay nervously Into respondents replied, only not in so the gallery and write n dispatch , many words.
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Ames Daily Tribune and Times
Ames, Iowa, US
Thu, Sep 10, 1936
Page 2
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