Word: madams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pacific, 150 ships, some 65,000 men were idle, but neither strikers nor shipowners would give an inch. So discouraged was Mediator Edward F. McGrady, Assistant Secretary of Labor, that he bought a ticket for Washington canceled it only on orders from Madam Secretary Perkins. At week's end he felt somewhat better as both sides agreed to resume parleys, the strikers agreed to unload perishable goods...
...Atlantic and Gulf, 151 ships and 16,000 men were idle, according to Strikeleader Joseph Curran. Shipowners and Madam Perkins joined in calling these figures "exaggerated," but produced none of their own. Meanwhile, the three-cornered battle went on apace. Shipowners produced the old Red herring that the East Coast strikers were led by racketeering Communists. Using this as an excuse President John M. Franklin of International Mercantile Marine (which particularly hates Seaman Curran because he began his striking career on an I. M. M. ship last spring) requested New York City's special prosecutor of racketeering, Thomas...
...Madam Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins revealed that her private elevator in the new Labor Department Building has been used only once. Relief Administrator Harry Lloyd Hopkins entered it last year by mistake, was unable to get out, had to be extricated...
Saint: The world is waiting, Harry, the entire world and your friends in the glamorous Hollywood you loved so much. All are waiting. Please speak, Harry. . . . Call to him, Madam Houdini, call...
...striking contrast to Denmark's gallant treatment of marrying Madam Minister Owen, pious Colombians made suave, energetic Spinster Guillen's life miserable after she ventured to deny officially that her Government persecuted the Catholic Church. Too late a Colombian newspaper editor reminded his churlish readers: "Señorita Guillen has said many nice things about Colombia and refused higher posts in the U. S. and Europe because she preferred Colombia...