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Many Clever Women Officials at Capital
The piece profiles numerous prominent women in Washington’s civil service and federal agencies. It highlights Miss Lucile Atherton and eight thousand working women she serves, recalls Mrs Selden Allen Day as a pen-named civil service pioneer, and lists leaders across Justice, Labor, Agriculture, Treasury, and War departments. It notes roles, backgrounds, and honors, including Judge Sellers and Major Julia Stimson, portraying a rising cadre of influential female officials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
N Sckinson Sherman
Ashington
Uncle Sam
District of Columbia
American Association of University Women
Belen Hampton Gardener
Civil Service Commissioners
Mabel Walker Willebrandt
Department of Justice
Grace Abbott
Children’s ‘Bureau
Department of Labor
Louise Stanley
Bureau of Home Economics
Department of Agriculture
Lucy Minnegerode
Bureau of Pubic Health Service
Treasury Department
Mary Anderson
Women’s Bureau
Incile Andherson
Govrrnment Foreign Service
Mary
Anita Phipps
War Department
Gardener
Raonally
Waxtington
Selden Allen Day
Day
Galden
Virginia
Ohio State Normal School
London
Paris
Rome
Sie i
Willebrandt
California
Portia
Supreme Court of the United States
Iinur
Miss Grace Abtote
Nebraska
Julia Lathrop
Children's Bureau
Abbott
Hell House
Chicago
Hugh S. Cumming
Sweden
United States
West Pullman
National
Boot and Shoe’ Workers’ Union
Washington
Women In Industry
National Defense Advisory Committee
Miss Marie van Kleeck
Woman’s Bureau
Miss van Kleeck
Miss Anderson
Miss
O'Toole
DOE
American Bar Association
Pri
Bar Association
Department of Siste
Carnegie Endowment For International Peace
Taylor
Brueggenmn
Act of Congress
Bruergeman
Tainois
St. Louis
Brueggeman
Red Cross Motor Corps
Missouri
Republican National Committee
Mina Yar Winkle
New Jersey
Herbert Hoover
Washington Police
International Association of Police Women
Major Stimson