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333:- Emmy Freundlich was a socialist and social democrat activist who became significantly involved in the cooperative movement. She was the first president of the International Guild of Co-operative Women, and played a number of other important roles in the historical cooperative movement.
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Beatrice exist, and many of them are books that can be found in one of our libraries. Useful online-accessible sources about Beatrice would include
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