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D12945-2
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- 1942-06-10 (Creation)
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Eleanor Wilson McAdoo, center, daughter of the late President Woodrow Wilson, with two unidentified women at Winthrop Hotel. Mrs. McAdoo was in Tacoma for a Bond rally held on June 10, 1942 at Jason Lee Junior School. She was the regional advisor on women's activities to the Treasury Department's War Savings Stamp and Bonds staff. She had served in World War I as Chairman of the Liberty Loan Drive under her father. During the Tacoma appearance, she spoke about women's activities in the war bond drives and helped form Tacoma's chapter of the Women's League for War Savings. (T. Times 6/9/1942, pg. 2; 6/11/42, pg. 11)
McAdoo, Eleanor Wilson; Wilson, Woodrow--Family; War bonds & funds; World War, 1939-1945--Economic aspects of war--Tacoma;