Alice Paul conducts a levee through the bars of her cell

In an art­icle pub­lished in 1917 dur­ing a sev­en month sen­tence Alice Paul was serving for pick­et­ing the White House, The Times re­por­ted wo­men were “still nag­ging” Pres­id­ent Woo­drow Wilson about the sen­tence for Paul and sev­en oth­er suf­fra­gists.