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Mrs. Florence Prag Kahn, San Francisco Representative in Congress from 1925 to 1937, died at her Huntington Hotel apartment in San Francisco, Calif. She was 82 years old.
For nearly thirty-six years Mrs. Kahn and her late husband, Julius Kahn, represented San Francisco's Fourth District in Congress. In 1925, a few months after Mr. Kahns' death, Mrs. Kahn was elected to fill her husband's unexpired term. She was later re-elected to Congress.
She used to sit in the gallery and listen to the speeches of legislators during her husband's 24 years in the House. Then, when she took the floor the galleries were jammed with hundreds who wanted to hear the latest Kahn quips.
Onco che had a run-in with the late Fiorello La GuaroMa, then Representative from New York, who denounced her as "nothing but a standpatter, following that reactionary. Senator George H. Moses of New Hampshire."
Mrs. Kahn wriggled loose from her seat, jammed her nondescript hat down over her nose and bellowed:
"Why shouldn't I choose Moses as my leader? Haven't my people been following him for ages?"
Her strength, her courage and vision were recognized by her confreres, says the New York Times. She was the first woman member of the Military Affairs Committee and of the Appropriations Committee.
During her terms in Washington she worked for and won, among many other things, San Francisco's Marine Hospital, Federal Building, new unit and improvement for the post office, Presidio and harbor. She was largely responsible for the selection of Sunnyvale for the naval air station and she helped get the naval air base for Alameda.
J. Edgar Hoover repeatedly called her "mother of the Federal Bureau of 'Investigation." When asked how she got more votes for her projects that anyone else in the House, she replied: "It's my sex appeal!" In 1937 Mrs. Kahn retired to "private life," but was still active in Republican and women's organizations.
Surviving are two sons, Julius Kahn Jr., of San Mateo, and Con* rad Prag Kahn, of Beverley Hills, and a grandson, Julias Kahn Sd.
The first of many widows of Congressmen to succeed their husbands in Washington, Mrs. Kahn, an astute politician with a wit salted by a sharp tongue, won re-election to five successive Congresses.
Together with her husband, the late Julius Kahn, who died in 1924, Mrs. Kahn kept the Kahn name in the House of Representatives for thirty-eight years with but one break�in 1903-'05. She was the first woman ever appointed to the important Appropriations Committee, and made a name for herself in her leadership of the fight against the prohibition amendment.
Mrs. Kahn was bom in Salt Lake City Nov. 9, 1868, the daughter of a California gold rush prospector from New York. She returned to California with Her parents when she was * year old, and grew up there. After graduation from the University-of California, Mrs. Kahn taught English in a San Francisco high school.
She met Julius Kahn, a successful actor who turned lawyer and legislator, and a five-year betrothal
followed. They were married in the year of his first election to Congress�1899.
During the first world war, Mrs. Kahn gave her husband what he described as invaluable service in the drafting and steering of the Selective Service act, She worked without pay in his olfice, and organized and directed the Kahn volunteers of young workers who wanted to give their spare time to the war effort.
After her husband's death in 1924, Mrs. Kahn won election from California's 4th District, which her husband had also served. In sue cessivc elections she went almost unopposed, indorsed by Democrats as well as Republicans. She did not often raise her voice in international affairs, and made only a few short speeches in any one session. But when she did speak out, as in 1941 when she resigned from the America First Committee, she spoke bluntly and with vehemence, says the New York Herald Tribune.
Against this toughness of mind was a gentle gift for repartee for which she was highly regarded. When she stumped for re-election at the age of sixty-five, there was a whispering campaign to the effect that she was too old for public life.
"Wait till ray mother hears of that," she said. Her mother, then eighty-nine, was an active member of the San Francisco Board of Education.
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Moreover, we had to avoid passing the Array camp in Talpiot because the Arab Leg-ion was stationed there and had killed the Sergeant of our Jewish Police Post, as he passed by on duty. The Talpiot-Arnona-Mekor Haim road wu a perilous one. One day our bus, then due to leave at 4 o'clock, wu unable to make the trip until 9 at night.
Places were so limited that to get priority really was an achievement In our own caw, for instance, our office WM closed for mo*t of two weeki, and many people were unable to leave the suburb for six weeks. Finally buses enough were put on our route, lovely tough, streamlined buses; a fairly good service was set up and we began feTmake the trip daily. Shooting continued � one of our buses is all riddled with holes of bullets that struck the outer coat of the vehicle but cannot penetrate the armour-plate lining.
The trip is most exciting at all times. Windows clamp shut and the bus darkens; the driver speeds; the escorts stand with finger on trigger at their peepholes. We sit on very low benches � singing, joking, talking, and then silent for the two very tense moments in Abu Tor, and then the relief as we open our ventilation port-holes and breathe the good air of Yemin Xoshe � unless they are still shooting there, as happens for days
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"Wild West?" Well, the pioneering days in America bred more than shooting and rough riding. It bred "folk" � people who were welded together to fight the evil out and to create the great New "Land of the day. Frontier life here, too, nurses the good spirit which will recreate the great Old-New Land. There will be many things to tell when these things may be told, and there will be legends of our day, and something for future generations to look up to and respect and follow. And there will be many jokes to tell one's grandchildren against one-self.
Take that night a couple of weeks ago of the Beit Saf af a bomb, for instance. The Hagana blew up a mill that had served as the
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Arab headquarters of that from where the Mekor Haim tuberculosis sanatorium was attacked for days and nights for weeks on end. The five stories caved in with a terrific crash that made oar house shake like a leaf. We awoke, went out to see what it was, and finally went back to bed.
An hoar later, I began to famt repeatedly like a genteel lady in a Victorian drama. The fact that the doctor came at night caused a stir in the quarter. Before the sun was up the procession of kind ladies began. For one week they cooked, baked, cleaned, scrubbed, laundered, mended, nursed, took over the children, and demanded that my husband get bos priority each day! They were true to the tradition of frontier women � "folks" we called them out West.
And the menfolk? Well, one day H can be told . . .
It is now six o'clock. The J.S.P. has sgain come in. The English have apparently gone hours ago, but the firing at us still continues unabated. The Arabs are taking up positions along their whole vfl-lage and gathering in the hffla. My children, he informs me, were taken from Talpiot in the armoured bus snd brought to friends three doors away. They aren't allowed to come home as we live in a wadi and they would be exposed to the Tiring on the crest of our hill, so they will sleep at our good neighbours'. My husband has just come home and dared the field, cronehirg as he ran, to bring milk for the baby and a bit of something for us.
Upstairs a fierce bullet hit the hinge of a wooden door and blew it on to the floor. The soprano and her husband violinist who lire there stopped their doet long enough to see what happened. They are at their music again.
The wind is comings up and a cold sleety rain is knifing the air. It will be wet and cold in the guard posts tonight.
As I was saying the menfolk . . .
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