Simultaneous meetings were held today in about 200 communities in the United States and Canada and a radio broadcast from six countries to celebrate the 44th anniversary of the National Council of Jewish Women and the 79th birthday of its founder. Mrs. Hannah G. Solomon of Chicago.
“Women’s Place in World Progress Today” was the theme of the “national birthday party.” The broadcast, heard from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. on the blue network of NBC, included addresses by 17 women leaders in American and Europe.
The celebration climaxed a national drive to increase the council’s membership from 40,000 to 48,000. A “birthday gift” of 5,000 new members will be given to Mrs. Solomon in Chicago on Jan. 31 at the annual board of directors’ meeting, according to Mrs. Rebekah Kohut, who is directing the membership campaign.
Among those on the speakers’ list for today’s broadcast were Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt and Miss Nina Strandberg, from New York; Mrs. Maurice L. Goldman and Mrs. M.C. Sloss, from San Francisco; Mrs. Solomon, at a luncheon in her honor, and Mrs. Arthur Brin from Chicago, and distinguished speakers from England, France, Czechoslovakia, Holland, Sweden and Switzerland.
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