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Revival of the Title Controversy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 July 2012

Extract

Last month the century-old title controversy was revived when Mrs. Pinchot, wife of the Governor of Pennsylvania, in a radio talk, made the assertion that she had always objected to the use of the expression “First Lady”; declaring that “it is a foolish, high-hat kind of a label, whether it is the first lady of a city, a state, or of the whole country — and is not especially appropriate in America.”

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Copyright © The President and Fellows of Harvard College 1931

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