[PDF] Jane Pratt eBook

Author : Marion Elliott Deerhake
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 28,44 MB
Release : 2024-04-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1476692629

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On May 25th, 1946, after 22 years as a congressional secretary, Jane Pratt was elected as North Carolina's first congresswoman. The press reported with great interest how "Miss Jane" won by a landslide with only a $100 campaign budget. She hit the ground running, voting to the pass the Atomic Energy Act, working tirelessly to mitigate a century of flood disasters in western North Carolina, and serving the constituents she knew so well. This first biography of Congresswoman Jane Pratt recounts her youth and fascinating career on Capitol Hill. It also provides a unique federal view of North Carolina's early 20th century history. After working as a rare female newspaper editor in the early 1920s, Pratt became secretary to five tarheel congressmen over some 30 years. Her career spanned the roaring twenties, the Great Depression, World War II, and the Cold War. Pratt's amazing network was a who's who of leaders in North Carolina and Washington, DC. Her decision not to run for re-election offers insight into why 46 years passed before the state elected another woman to Congress.

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Page : 136 pages
File Size : 17,56 MB
Release : 1992-05-25
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New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.

Author : Kara Jesella
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 38,36 MB
Release : 2007-04-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1466821612

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For a generation of teenage girls, Sassy magazine was nothing short of revolutionary—so much so that its audience, which stretched from tweens to twentysomething women, remains obsessed with it to this day and back issues are sold for hefty sums on the Internet. For its brief but brilliant run from 1988 to 1994, Sassy was the arbiter of all that was hip and cool, inspiring a dogged devotion from its readers while almost single-handedly bringing the idea of girl culture to the mainstream. In the process, Sassy changed the face of teen magazines in the United States, paved the way for the unedited voice of blogs, and influenced the current crop of smart women's zines, such as Bust and Bitch, that currently hold sway. How Sassy Changed My Life will present for the first time the inside story of the magazine's rise and fall while celebrating its unique vision and lasting impact. Through interviews with the staff, columnists, and favorite personalities we are brought behind the scenes from its launch to its final issue and witness its unique fusion of feminism and femininity, its frank commentary on taboo topics like teen sex and suicide, its battles with advertisers and the religious right, and the ascension of its writers from anonymous staffers to celebrities in their own right.

Author : Jim Pratt
Publisher : Agio Publishing House
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 32,94 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1897435312

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Brief tips on everything from careers to etiquette and spirituality to give high school graduates the wisdom to make it in the real world and provide "life smarts."

Author : S. A. Cozad
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 29,94 MB
Release : 2014-02-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781304889270

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Jane Pratt's life changes in an instant and this is her story.

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Page : 136 pages
File Size : 36,45 MB
Release : 1992-05-25
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New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.

Author : Nebraska. Supreme Court
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Page : 916 pages
File Size : 45,84 MB
Release : 1888
Category : Court rules
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"Rules of the Supreme Court. In force February 1, 1914": v. 94, p. vii-xx.