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...this end, Mr. Roosevelt said he would call a meeting this month between "small groups" of representatives of large bodies of labor and management to agree on "a specific trial period of industrial peace." What form this trial would take remained to be seen, though Madam Secretary Perkins later announced that Labor would not be asked to surrender its right to strike...
When Nurse Keislich showed eagerness to go on with the details, the presiding Justice reproved her. Said he: "My dear Madam, you have teeth in your mouth to clamp down on your tongue...
Attorney General Cummings whose men caught John Dillinger and Indiana's Governor McNutt, whose men let him escape, talked about crime. Madam Secretary Perkins urged unemployment insurance; and President Stanley King of Amherst College warned against rushing headlong into it. When Mrs. Meloney pushed a card at Theodore Roosevelt reading "You have one more minute," that speaker swept it aside and talked for three more about "worthwhile work." There was a session on "Changing Standards in the Arts," with contributions from Will Irwin, Hugh Walpole, Pearl Buck, Lawrence Tibbett, Harvey Wiley Corbett, a session on Youth, a session...
...Champlain, fastest patrol boat on the New Jersey coast, was ordered to take on an oceanographer, proceed to Greenland on a "scientific cruise," get back as fast as it could. But the Champlain could not get back in time to answer the SOS of the liner Morro Castle, save Madam Minister Owen and her benefactor the embarrassment of explaining to Delaware's Republican Senator Hastings why "the gem of the Coast Guard fleet was taken from its regular station near the scene of the disaster and sent on a needless junket...
Driving to Boston to speak over the radio, Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins fretted in a Labor Day traffic jam outside Brunswick, Me. To escape from a tangle with two other cars, her chauffeur swerved into a ditch, lost control, over turned her sedan. Madam Secretary Per kins, badly jolted, canceled her afternoon engagement, delivered her speech that evening...