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Secretary of Interior Ickes has Nathan R. Margold, Harvard Law School graduate, as his solicitor, and Robert D. Kohn as his director of PWA housing. Madam Secretary Perkins has two able Jewish helpers, Isador Lubin Jr. as labor statistician and Charles E. Wyzanski Jr. as solicitor. Lawyer Wyzanski has spent most of his 28 years winning prizes: as a high school boy, from the Daughters of the American Revolution; as a student at Phillips Exeter, the Walter Hines Page, Merrill and Teschemacher prizes (all in one year) and a four-year scholarship at Harvard; as a junior at Harvard...
...There isn't a first-class strike in America. Why do the American people get the jitters when the word 'strike' is mentioned? Is it so terrible that people leave work and refuse to come back until they get something they want?"-Madam Secretary Perkins to newshawks last week in Cleveland. Asked what was the difference between a first-and third-class strike, she offered definitions...
...bargaining committees. Battered from pillar to post, the Board, whose appointment "settled" the strike which threatened three weeks ago to shut down the entire industry, was in a thoroughly uncomfortable position-faced by new strikes which might turn out to be both first-and third-class shindigs according to Madam Perkins' definitions...
...lawn at the White House. When the lights wink on in the President's living quarters at night, Chief Moran knows that the U. S. executive is as safe as he can possibly be. Then, and not until then. Chief Moran goes home to his wife ("the Madam") in one of the Service's big Pierce-Arrows...
...jury which included Amelia Earhart Putnam, Madam Secretary Perkins (who voted by mail from a catalog) and Professor John Dewey found most beautiful a section of spring, an outboard propeller, a ring of ball bearings. The voting public chose a larger propeller, a triple mirror, a metal measure...