1. By: Celine Carrillo

2. Dates: Born: July 09, 1893 Grew up in Lancaster, New York Death: Jan. 30, 1961 Lisbon, Portugal

3.  After Dorothy’s mother died and her father remarried and Dorothy fought frequently with her stepmother, and in 1908, she was sent to live with relatives in Chicago. After graduating from Syracuse University in 1914, she worked for the women's suffrage movement until 1917 when she moved to New York and embarked on a career in journalism.

5.  Beginning in 1936, her weekly column "On the Record" ran in the New York Herald Tribune and more than 150 other newspapers. "On the Record," plus a monthly column she wrote for the Ladies Home Journal and her work as a lecturer and NBC radio made her the most known woman journalist in the country as well as one of the most famous women in pre-World War II AmericaWorld War II America

7.  Her other political writings became more conservative; however, she supported nuclear disarmament and portrayed the Cold War as a cultural and battle rather than as a military struggle. She died later while doing research for one of her topics in Portugal in 1961.

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