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Laugh cure for heckling shows Wilson calm during suffrage clash
The piece recalls President Wilson's calm response to suffragists heckling him in New York. It notes the English and American militant tactics, the Belmont letters, and European reaction. It cites secretary Tumulty, the protest at the president’s yacht, and later criticism from pacifist suffragists.
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Wilson
Woman Suffrage Party
Taft
Roosevelt
America
Europe
United States
Woodrow Wilson
New York
Kipling
Rudyard
Mabel Scofield
John Bull
Florence Harmon
O. H. P. Belmont
Congressional Union
Congressional Union For
New York City
Secret Service
Tumulty
National Association
Mary Garrett Hay
Anna Howard Shaw
National American Woman Suffrage Association
Shaw
O’gorman
Germany
England