Radio address

Carrie Chapman Catt
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Radio Address for the National Council of Women – Jan. 25, 1935
January 25, 1935
The following transcript contains two versions of this address. The National Committee on the Cause and Cure of War, composed of eleven women's national organizations, has been celebrating its tenth anniversary this week in Washington. The Committee's constituents number approximately six millions of women. These women are learning about war: what it means; what starts it; and what it costs. The Committee has held ten annual conferences at which 270 addresses have been made by distinguished students of the war problem, followed by questions and discussions. Two hundred subjects have […]
Carrie Chapman Catt
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Radio Address - December 1930
December 1, 1930
The United States Senate in 1926 applied for membership in the World Court with five reservations. Other nation members of the court have granted these conditions and the President has passed on the protocol of accession to the Senate. No excuse now exists for the United States to remain out of the Court. Millions of American women are urging early and favorable action since they prefer courts and wise judges to battleships and destructive guns when and if a dispute arises. The World Court is an American idea, having been […]
Carrie Chapman Catt
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Radio Address - August 26, 1925
August 26, 1925
Five years ago today the women of the United States, one and all, became voters. Through the ratification of the nineteenth amendment, the process prescribed by the Federal constitution was completed and from the status of political nonentities women were promoted to that of responsible citizens. From that moment women, equally with men, became accountable for all action of our government, local, state and nation. They became equal arbiters of all political policies, problems and propaganda - inescapably equal creators of the destiny of a great nation. For five years […]
Carrie Chapman Catt
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Radio Address on the History of the Suffrage Movement - 1939
January 1, 1939
A century ago no organization existed anywhere in the world to urge the correction of the wrongs visited upon women by the laws and customs of the entire world. In 1839, most women were married and at the marriage ceremony all property the woman might possess or ever acquire, even to her hairpins and shoelaces, passed to the possession of her husband. Should she earn wages, she was not legally permitted to collect and spend them. Although the property, nevertheless, stood in her name, she could not make a will. […]
Carrie Chapman Catt
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Broadcast for the National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs - July 10, 1939
July 10, 1939
The National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs commemorates a century today: 1839 - 1939. The most important thing that happened within that century was the organized Woman Movement and what it did. It utterly changed the foundation of human society. At the beginning of that century, the legal and social status of women was almost unbelievably restricted. For many previous centuries the theory had been accepted with practical universality that men were divively appointed to rule and women to obey and this was enforced by both Catholic and […]
Carrie Chapman Catt
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Women Voters - Are You Satisfied With? - June 23, 1939
June 23, 1939
The following transcript contains three versions of this National Broadcasting Company radio address. As prepared and given Equal citizenship and the vote were added to the program of the Woman Movement in 1848. That campaign began with practically the entire world against it; it closed seventy-two years later with an organization of two millions of women at work within it its ranks. Today, no woman is uneducated for want of schools and every woman citizen has a ballot in her hand. Mrs. [Eva vom Baur] Hansl asks me, as one […]
Carrie Chapman Catt
categories: Radio address, Speeches
Radio Address for the 44th Birthday of the National Council of Jewish Women - Jan. 11, 1937
January 11, 1937
Catt gave this address as part of an international radio broadcast featuring 17 women from six European countries, Canada and the United States. The broadcast aired as a special edition of WJZ's "Let's Talk It Over" program and was sponsored by the National Council of Jewish Women in honor of its 44th anniversary and the 79th birthday of its founder, Mrs. Hannah G. Solomon. Each of the speakers addressed the general topic "Women's Place in World Progress Today." Could we see the nations as they actually are today, we would […]
Carrie Chapman Catt
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We Are Against War - March 21, 1936
March 21, 1936
Radio address War is the oldest institution in the world. Reliable historians insist that men have been fighting each other for a million years! The world's war system embraces the entire human race. All nations, tribes, and religions are included in it. All are guilty of continuing this abominable system. The Great War cost $93.50 for every man, woman, and child in the entire world. That cost did not include the much greater expense of the-world-around depression that followed the war and from which no nation has yet recovered. Depressions […]
Carrie Chapman Catt
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International Radio Address for Tenth Conference on the Cause and Cure of War - Jan. 24, 1935
January 24, 1935
The Conference on the Cause and Cure of War is now sitting in its tenth anniversary session. It is the unanimous opinion of the delegates that modern wars do not pay. Napoleon, who knew all there was to be known about war, said many, many years ago, that "Wars settle nothing." He was right. Wars bring no good to any land; they distribute evil influences everywhere. The World War will not be paid for, if at all, by the end of a century after its close. The demoralizing effects of […]
Carrie Chapman Catt
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Speech on the Cause and Cure of War - January 1934
January 16, 1934
This address was probably broadcast at the 9th Conference on the Cause and Cure of War. The Ninth Annual Conference on the Cause and Cure of War is now in session in Washington. The Conference is composed of delegates from eleven national women's organizations. None of them are primarily peace organizations. They have met together for the purpose of finding the cause and the cure of war. Men have come to give their views, gathered from wide experience. Men from Great Britain, France, Germany, Spain, Holland, Italy, Russia, China Japan, […]