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DEBATES IN SENATE WOMAN RECEIVES APPLAUSE (Received November 21, 5.5 p.m.) WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 Two women members of Congress made notable addresses to-day, one being received with applause, which is almost unprecedented. Senator Dixie Graves, wife of the Governor of Alabama, who appointed her to replace Mr. Justice Black, in her maiden speech criticised the AntiLynching Bill, which the Senate is still debating and which threatens to disrupt the legislative programme. "1 abhor lynching," she said, "but lynchings have been reduced from 30 in ]926 to 10 in JS)36. In five years there will be no lynching in the entire South." The representative of Virginia, Mrs. Jenckes, deplored the planting in Washington of Japanese cherry trees, the gift of the Japanese Government.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22892, 22 November 1937, Page 9
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