Word: dewson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House, holds that women are created free and equal with men, scorns all protective legislation for women. To the opposite female faction-who favor not equal rights but special rights for women-it was unthinkable that Miss Stevens should occupy so exalted a post. Eleanor Roosevelt, Frances Perkins, "Molly" Dewson, and many another New Dealer belong to the opposition. Yet for ten years Miss Stevens kept her seat in spite of all the bonfires they could build under...
Last January the bonfire girls found a match: the U. S. Government had never officially appointed her to her post. Franklin Roosevelt quietly appointed a chum of Mesdames Perkins, Dewson and his wife -Mary Winslow of Washington-to the "vacancy." But Miss Stevens thwarted the bonfire girls. She refused to leave office...
...replace Harry Hopkins at the head of WPA, the President elevated Colonel Francis Clark ("Pinky") Harrington, whose political coloration is neutral to the point that he boasts of never having voted (see p. 8). To replace Miss Mary Dewson, 64, resigning from the Social Security Board because of physical exhaustion, the President named Mrs. Ellen S. Woodward, fortyish, director of women's and professional activities...
...most people don't think. . . . How deadly stupid we are. . . ."; 3) turned over her regular press conference to Mrs. Mary Harriman Rumsey who told the disappointed newshawks how female consumers can complain to the NRA about the cost of what they buy and to Miss Mary W. Dewson of the Women's Division of the Democratic National Committee who told what plans were afoot to make women Democrats out of women Republicans...