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3 unusual facts about Mildred Adams


Mildred Adams

She moved to New York City, where she wrote articles for her aunt, Gertrude Foster Brown (1868-1956), an early woman's suffrage leader who was then managing editor of Woman's Journal.

Often in Europe on assignment, she reported on the early days of the League of Nations and the drafting of Spain's 1931 constitution.

Her sister-in-law, Dorothy Kenyon, was also a prominent politically active New York attorney who in 1950 ws the first person to appear before the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee investigating charges by Sen. Joseph McCarthy concerning membership in Communist-front organizations.



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