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...light of her imminent retirement, political pundits began to reappraise the career of this small, plumpish woman who, in her unfashionable tricorn hat, has long bustled in & out of Administration councils. Most surprising opinion came from the Baltimore Sun's bitterly anti-New Deal Columnist Frank Kent. He wrote: "Far from being the worst Secretary of Labor we have had, good argument can be made that Miss Perkins is the best...
...only faults Columnist Kent could find with Miss Perkins were that...
...made occasional silly statements. But what Cabinet officer, he asked, is innocent on these counts? He added: "Unpleasant as it is to say, apparently the basic reason for the long, sustained campaign against her is that she is a woman." Then looking gloomily ahead, as is his custom, Columnist Kent pinned a final decoration on Cabinet Member Perkins: "We could do a lot worse-and probably will...
Junk the Trolley? As usual, E. Roy Fitzgerald, 51, the taciturn president of National City Lines, kept his plans for Los Angeles to himself and his brothers: Ed, 60,'the quiet, conservative treasurer; Ralph, 49, hard-driving boss of operations and maintenance; Kent, 45, who runs the Illinois operations for National; and John, 54, head of an independent bus line...
...blast directed at U.S. postwar commercial plans in general, including civil aviation as well as the world press, the sober and influential London Economist specifically attacked A.P.'s Executive Director Kent Cooper. It singled out for criticism Pressman Cooper's recent statement in LIFE that, as a first step to world press freedom, preferential transmission rates should be abolished. The Economist observed: "Mr. Cooper, like most big-business executives, experiences a peculiar moral glow in finding that his idea of freedom coincides with his commercial advantage. In his ode to liberty, there is no suggestion that when...