Word: ma
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
...Conciliation Service has functioned with more success than is generally credited to it. In 1940, its 110 conciliators intervened in 1,568 threatening situations, averted strikes in 95% of them. The year before, the Service was successful in 93% of its cases. But that success was due less to Ma Perkins than to such able men as Chief Conciliator John R. Steelman and, before him, to Assistant Secretary Edward F. McGrady...
Consequently her Job Mann is an even more resolute character than Ma Joad Determined to pull himself and his companions up from slime, malnutrition and poverty, he succeeds. If she sometimes belabors a point, ofttimes overwrites, Author Slade nevertheless carries her thesis -a quotation from her lawyer-husband, John A. Slade: "It is strange how most of us go through life, knowing so little about it, nourished on vague hopes, half-beliefs, and repressions . . .; in a crisis, it may be that only those who are capable of deliberate choice and planning shall survive...
Johnny: "I can't get Ma; she's never home. Will you take down the arrangements about the baby...
...best direction (The Grapes of Wrath). Then panting David Selznick got one for the best production (Rebecca). Thereupon Actress Lynn Fontanne, fresh from her evening's performance next door in There Shall Be No Night, rose to hand the Oscar for character to Jane Darwell (for Ma Joad, in The Grapes), the noblest Oscar of them all (for Kitty Foyle) to Ginger Rogers, who wept, screamed "greatest moment of my life" and fled back to her table amid dog-show din, to subside tearfully on the proud shoulders of Kitty Foyle Producer David Hempstead. Walter Brennan of the removable...