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Chief criticism of Frances Cora ("Ma") Perkins when she first took office, eight years ago, was that she wore skirts and a tricorn bonnet, instead of trousers and a derby. Boston-born, Mount Holyoke-bred, she had a record of passionate social-welfare work and conscientious service to New York as a member of industrial boards and as the State's industrial commissioner. She had been responsible for progressive State legislation. She had swept up many dirty corners. First thing she did when she walked into her musty old office in Washington was to call for a dustcloth...
...Morgan she never ad libs, gives Scriptwriter Rapp and Hanley Stafford, her "Daddy," plenty of credit for helping her put Snooks across, threw a party last week in honor of them and Snooks's seventh anniversary. Favorite situation cooked up for Snooks involved the purchase of an Easter bonnet. First she demands flowers for the hat, then fruit, eggs, vegetables. Remarks the clerk: "Shall I wrap it up?" Replies Snooks: "No, I'll eat it here...
...Ambassador to Paris, Count Fernand de Brinon, was back there from Berlin with Hitler's terms of "collaboration." The Marshal anxiously awaited the coming to Vichy of this onetime payoff man for Georges Bonnet who now held France's fate in his brief case. Hitler's terms were reported to include a demand that German troops be allowed to cross Tunisia from Sicily for an attack on the British in Libya. This proposition was made to the Marshal by his ousted Vice Premier Pierre Laval when the two met at La Ferté a fortnight ago. Then...
...Geneva, N. Y. (now Syracuse University Medical School). At Geneva, the entire student body had demanded her admission. A Boston medical journal spoke of her with arch masculinity as "a pretty little specimen of the feminine gender . . . [who] comes into the class with great composure, takes off her bonnet . . . exposing a fine phrenology." In due time Elizabeth graduated, became the first woman M.D. in the U. S. Dr. Blackwell opened a hospital in New York (Infirmary for Women and Children), moved to England after the Civil War. She be came an honored London professor, died at Hastings...
...Woman's Masonic College of Covington, Ga., now out of existence, where my grandmother received her A.B. degree in 1854, the prescribed uniform was "a sprigged challis" over hoops, with a demure green velvet poke bonnet tied under the chin...