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...evening the President and Mrs. Roosevelt attended a dinner at the Mayflower Hotel given jointly by all members of the Cabinet, in lieu of ten separate dinners held in other years. All ten members of the Cabinet, nine of their spouses (only absent spouse: Paul Wilson, husband of Madam Secretary Perkins), the Vice President, the Speaker, the Budget Director, Mrs. Curtis Dall, Gracie Hall Roosevelt (brother of Mrs. Roosevelt), Frederic A. Delano (uncle of the President) and all the White House secretaries were present...
...more than 24 hours before the bail was raised and he was free. Meantime a Negro attorney was preparing an appeal to Madam Secretary Perkins against his deportation. The grounds: he was twice convicted but only one act of moral turpitude was involved...
...madam," replied an attendant. "You will find the King James Version an excellent translation...
...General Johnson's elbow Mr. Harriman met an old acquaintance: his sister, Mrs. Mary Harriman Rumsey, passionate New Dealer, who at the instance of her good friend Madam Secretary Perkins, enjoys the chairmanship of NRA's consumers' advisory board, and has become a favorite with the General. Sister Mary founded the Junior League at the turn of the Century and later sought an outlet for her restlessness in such unrelated fields as running a smalltown newspaper for a while, horse-and cattle-breeding on her Virginia estate and sponsoring the co-operative movement among U. S. farmers...
...heels of this dinner the President and Mrs. Roosevelt held their first state reception for the diplomatic corps. The President and First Lady (in cream brocade) greeted the Cabinet headed by Secretary of War and Mrs. Dern (pale grey satin)-Madam Secretary of Labor Perkins (black velvet) arrived late-and passed into the Blue Room to "receive." Instead of assembling on the stairs and marching counterclockwise (according to precedent) through the first floor, the guests started from the East Room, marched clockwise to the Blue Room. Head of the procession was Dean of the Diplomatic Corps Ahmet Muhtar, Turkish Ambassador...