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FRANCES C. MCCONNELL Palo Alto, Calif.
During the twelve-month period ending June 30, there were 162 sexual assaults in the District of Columbia. This figures out at 20 per 100,000 population-roughly double the national average. Last month a teen-age Negro hid behind a stairwell door in the State Department Building, grabbed a...
Frances Perkins traced her ancestry to prerevolutionary Massachusetts, and from her birth, in 1882, was schooled in the genteel manner of the New England Brahmin, graduating from Mount Holyoke College in 1902. She then served as a social worker for the Episcopal Church, as a high school teacher and finally...
Shortly after Roosevelt's death. Miss Perkins' resignation was accepted by President Truman, but she remained in Government for another seven years as a civil-service commissioner. The day Dwight Eisenhower was inaugurated she resigned for good, the "last leaf," she said cheerfully, on the New Deal tree...
Died. Frances Perkins, 83, first woman Cabinet officer, F.D.R.'s Secretary of Labor (1933-45); of a stroke; in Manhattan (see THE NATION).