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Sauce for the gander being sauce for the goose, last week at the White House Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt announced jointly with Madam Secretary of Labor Perkins that women, too, would be sent to the woods this summer at Federal expense. An experimental camp was being built at Bear Mountain Park. New York, overlooking the Hudson. Thither this week were to go 25 unmarried, ablebodied, unemployed, penniless women between the ages of 18 and 30. Federal emergency relief funds were to pay $5 board each week for each woman wood-ster. They will not draw pay but will have counselors...
...Frances Perkins advocates a six-hour day and a 30-hour week for others but not for her hard-working self. Her morning-to-midnight hours last week cost her the services of her official chauffeur. When Louis St. George, young and happily married, told her he was quitting. Madam Secretary Perkins asked: "What's the matter? Are you in poor health?'' "No indeed," replied Chauffeur St. George, "but I soon will be if I keep working 17 hours a day." His employer's failure to practice what she preached, he added, was disrupting his home...
...Poland's Pilsudski. A sow named Cleopatra was tried for high treason because she had littered two more pigs than the President had allotted her. President Roosevelt made a speech but, according to Gridiron rules, "reporters are never present." Neither are ladies-in fact, though not in theory. Madam Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins was only member of the Cabinet not invited. While the Gridiron dinner was in progress. Mrs. Roosevelt gave Miss Perkins a party-for-ladies-only at the White House. In an exuberant moment Major, the Roosevelt police dog and only male present, nipped Madam Senator...
President Roosevelt made another deep bow to the ladies last week. He had already made Frances Perkins the country's first female Cabinet member by appointing her Madam Secretary of Labor. He had made Ruth Bryan Owen first U. S. woman envoy by appointing her Madam Minister to Denmark. Now, to be the first Madam Director of the Mint he chose, and the Senate confirmed. Nellie Tayloe Ross, hardy Wyoming plains-woman who in 1925 had the distinction of being first U. S. woman Governor when she filled the vacancy left by her deceased husband. Madam Director Ross...
...history to attain ministerial rank. Joyfully asked the Copenhagen Press: "Who could understand us better than Denmark's girl friend?"-a reference to the fact that in 1931 Mrs. Owen & family toured that country with a Curtis Aerocar (a two-wheeled trailer containing a kitchenet and four bunks). Madam Minister Owen, who lost her Florida seat in the House March 4. promptly revealed that she had found some Danish ancestors who arrived in the U. S. in 1636. Said she: "I am very happy to have been assigned this post because of my father's connection with foreign...