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Final Battles
2014
Overview
No matter how pertinent the goals or how lofty the rhetoric in the Woman’s Department, ugly images of bickering women kept creeping back in. Contrary to the official Resolution from Lady Commissioners in support of Howe in mid-April, declarations of peace had been illusory. Some predicaments seemed unintentional; the blows came with the territory of leadership. Others seemed of Howe’s own making. In any case, her vulnerabilities were beginning to show.
It was not long before Director-General E. A. Burke simply quit his post. With just a few weeks left of the Exposition, his sudden resignation claimed that “requirements of
