Word: madams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Central Division to a packing firm, its assistant Southern director to a big cotton ranch, the head of its sugar section to the Sugar Institute. Gone after his chief was one of Rexford Tugwell's economists, to represent the Puerto Rico Sugar Producers. Said to be going are Madam Secretary Perkins' brilliant statistician, Isador Lubin. RFC's General Counsel James Alley and Solicitor Max Truitt. Tempted with flattering offers have.been the Department of Justice's able Robert Jackson, TVA's General Solicitor James L. Fly, practically the whole cream of the Government crop...
Messrs. Wallace, Roper and Madam Perkins, like everyone else in Washington, knew that what they were missing was an empty honor. Before sailing Roosevelt let it be well understood that, as when Wilson visited Paris and Coolidge visited Havana, there would be no acting President in his absence. With modern means of communication, distance from Washington is no Inability in a U. S. President...
Immediately after he spectacularly settled the coal strike of 1933, Madam Secretary Perkins met Postmaster General Farley at a Cabinet meeting and said, "I was mistaken about that Mr. McGrady," and he promptly became her aide. In Washington he lives quietly with one of his married daughters. His two sons are dead and his wife, a large Irishwoman, lives mostly in Boston with another married daughter. In private life he is an unusually pious Catholic, carries a rosary, also a crucifix blessed for a Happy Death, and on which, if ill or unable to get to church, he may gain...
...burden falls on him because Madam Secretary Perkins is, in the eyes of Labor, an outsider. If she should retire, her job might be given to one of Franklin Roosevelt's liberal friends, such as Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia of New York City, or it might be given to Ed McGrady...
...Month ago, when McGrady sat on the platform to dress up a meeting of the Good Neighbor League at which Madam Perkins spoke, General Johnson columnized: "He is a man. He belongs among men and not as a starched and sweating Exhibit X in a boiled shirt in any Stanley High Ladies' night...