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...Madam Secretary of Labor Perkins...
...third day they reviewed the midshipmen at Annapolis (21 guns). The Governor-General attended a luncheon given by British Ambassador Sir Ronald Lindsay (while Lady Tweedsmuir was the luncheon guest of Madam Secretary Perkins), went to the Capitol, heard some of Vice President Garner's most risible stories, addressed the U. S. Senate and shook the hands of all its members, did it all over again in the House, returned to the White House for tea, said goodby, took his lady to dinner at the Canadian Legation as guest of Sir Herbert Marler, then tumbled into a Pullman...
...mere flyspeck on the expense account, of timid-looking souls who may have been frightened by stern letters of invitation, of would-be office holders, of nobodies whose sense of importance was enlarged by attending a $100 dinner. Two noteworthy guests were Messrs. Walter P. Chrysler and William Green. Madam Secretary Perkins and Madam Director of the Mint Ross were among the very few women guests, for most Democrats did not put up an extra $100 to feed their wives...
...unpleasant choice between stopping construction of six destroyers and three submarines in Government Navy yards, or of having Madam Secretary of Labor Perkins (charged with enforcement of the Walsh-Healy Act) declare an emergency and permit the steel companies to supply steel manufactured by 44-hour-a-week workers-thus offending Organized Labor...
...Barney & Co., married Siegfried Roebling, rich grandson of Col. Roebling and vice president of John A. Roebling's Sons Co. in Trenton. Siegfried Roebling died a year ago, leaving his wife among other things a large stock interest in Trenton Trust Co. No stranger to authority, Madam President Roebling is the only woman representative on New Jersey's new State Unemployment Compensation Commission, finance chairman of Trenton's Maternal Health Center, director of the Mercer County Health League. No lover of publicity, she is careful to point out that there are about 4,500 women officers...