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By last week Labor was not only reconciled to but jubilant over Miss Perkins. She had clearly showed her stripe when she stood up for mill workers at the steel code hearing before NRA (TIME, Aug. 7). That hearing was to have been the first important test of the union...
Pleas she was the first woman jurist to sentence a man to death. As Supreme Court Judge she is rounding out her second six-year term. - Upon her the Federation of Business & Professional Women has conferred the title "preeminent professional woman of the nation." "The unmarried woman earning her living...
Famed Historian David Saville Muzzey compiled a list of 50 citizens who "on a basis of their contributions to public life" would find prominence in U. S. history books of 1983. Only woman listed: Authoress Edith Wharton. Reconsidering, he mentioned Social Worker Jane Addams. Omitted "advisedly" was Calvin Coolidge.
Named greatest U. S. woman of the century (1832-1932) in a nation-wide free-for-all-women poll to select the twelve whose likenesses will appear in a frieze in the Social Science Building at Chicago's Century of Progress was Mary Baker Eddy with 102,762 votes...
In Chicago, Runner-up Addams announced her own list of twelve greatest, dropping six poll winners including herself. Her substitutes: Lacy Stone Blackwell, Julia Clifford Lathrop, Florence Kelley, Dr. Alice Hamilton, Dr. Florence Rena Sabin, Lillian Wald.