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Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins advocates a six-hour day and a 30-hour week for others but not for her hard-working self. Her morning-to-midnight hours last week cost her the services of her official chauffeur. When Louis St. George, young and happily married, told her he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: 17-Hour Day | 5/15/1933 | See Source »

A Dry candidate for New York State's convention on repeal of the 8th Amendment was bald, square-cut Vivian Burnett, original of Little Lord Fauntleroy, written by his mother, Frances Hodgson Burnett, in 1886. Now a free lance writer, he told newshawks: "I was a perfectly normal boy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 15, 1933 | 5/15/1933 | See Source »

The Silver Cord (RKO). If there is one thing which U. S. cinemaddicts have been taught to consider wholesome, if not sacred, it is Mother Love. The producers of this picture therefore deserve credit for their courage. The Silver Cord is a searching and bitter character study of a woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 15, 1933 | 5/15/1933 | See Source »

With an Astor, a Mellon, a Widener, a Baruch, a Pulitzer, two Du Ponts and many another notable, Franklin Roosevelt last week attended his first Gridiron Club dinner as President of the U. S. From the seat of honor in the Willard Hotel ballroom he watched Washington correspond- ents royally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Roosevelt Week: May 8, 1933 | 5/8/1933 | See Source »

President Roosevelt made another deep bow to the ladies last week. He had already made Frances Perkins the country's first female Cabinet member by appointing her Madam Secretary of Labor. He had made Ruth Bryan Owen first U. S. woman envoy by appointing her Madam Minister to Denmark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Mint Lady | 5/8/1933 | See Source »

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