Word: madams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...peanut growers' legislation until Labor got under his skin last winter. Congressman Cox recently proclaimed: "I warn John L. Lewis and his Communistic cohorts that no second 'carpetbag expedition' in the Southland, under the red banner of Soviet Russia . . . will be tolerated." He also accused Madam Perkins of treason. By last week Congressman Cox had slipped so far away from the New Deal that he was confusedly damning Supreme Court Nominee Hugo Black as an "anarchist...
...plague o' both your houses." It was the week in which Labor's even dearer friend, Madam Secretary Perkins, at last admitted (after the preceding week's Federal Circuit Court of Appeals decision) that the potent Sit-Down was an illegal weapon, deplorable and unworthy. And it was the week when John Lewis' C.I.O. was being blamed, rightly or wrongly, for terroristic acts with dynamite at Bethlehem Steel's plant near Johnstown...
...this time the luckless Governor found himself embroiled in a front-page argument with Madam Secretary Frances Perkins. He claimed that the Secretary of Labor had urged him to "kidnap" the recalcitrant steelmasters, sit them down with John Lewis, "keep them there until they signed an agreement...
Deterred not the least by an interruption from New York's Caroline O'Day, who pointed out that her good friend Frances Perkins was born near Boston, Mr. Hoffman suggested that it would be well if Madam Perkins "kept her mouth shut." He purported to quote President Roosevelt to the effect that if Communism broke out in the U. S., it would first reveal itself in Detroit, announced that the Russians had already renamed Detroit in honor of John L. Lewis-presumably Lewisgrad...
...Recognition of Mrs. Warfield as a royal duchess, entitled to be called Her Royal Highness and addressed as Madam...