Article: Female Activists Commemorated

WOMEN WILL make their mark on the mail this year, when they are featured on stamps for two-ounce and three-ounce letters.

Alice Hamilton, a pioneer in industrial medicine and an ardent pacifist who was once labeled a Communist sympathizer, appears on the 55-cent (two-ounce) stamp, and suffragist Alice Paul will be on the 78-cent (three-ounce) stamp.

They will replace two male politicians, Democrat Hubert H. Humphrey, former U.S. vice president and senator, who is on the old 52-cent (two-ounce) stamp, and Republican Wendell Willkie, a presidential nominee who appeared on the 75-cent (three-ounce) stamp under the rates that ended Jan. 1.

There was a time when the Postal Service might have ...

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