Word: madams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...woman scorned, Madam Secretary Perkins met newshawks with tight lips, think," flushed face, burst she, "that pencil-tapping General fingers. Motors "I have made a great mistake, perhaps the greatest mistake in their lives...
President Sloan's reason-the "unlawful seizure" of G. M. plants by sit-down strikers-Madam Perkins brushed aside as "legalistic." "The real reason the workers would not take their men out of the plants," asserted she, "was that they felt they couldn't trust General Motors. An episode like this must explain to the American people and make it clear why the workers can't trust General Motors...
...Lewis' mimeograph when it appeared that he had made a tactical blunder in advertising quite so blatantly that he was on the march. First, and least important from Mr. Lewis' standpoint, Messrs. Sloan and Knudsen promptly walked out and abandoned their conference with Governor Murphy and Madam Secretary Perkins. Mr. Sloan declared that after Mr. Lewis' demand it was "futile" to continue. The press, including many liberal papers generally sympathetic with Mr. Lewis, expressed its disapprobation. The genteel New York Times said: "Mr. Lewis had a full supply of impudence with him." If President Roosevelt had been...
...unionists among the 31,000 employes of the 17 strike-closed plants would unfortunately have to keep on shifting for themselves. G. M., said Mr. Knudsen emphatically, had no intention of provoking violence by employing strikebreakers. As neither side showed signs of yielding, Madam Secretary Perkins this week invoked the Congressional statute which empowers the Secretary of Labor to mediate a labor dispute "whenever . . . the interests of industrial peace so re- quire." virtually commanded the G. M. and C. I. O. leaders to resume with her at once the conference which John Lewis had disrupted...
...period, this world of ours continues its irresistible progress toward perdition. Herewith we append a brief survey of events in the world today, which, depending on your previous condition of servitude, you can lay at the door of (a.) the sit-down strikers, (b.) the weather man, or (c.) Madam Secretary Perkins...