Word: madams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the summers of 1923-24, while still a high school student, I worked for the North Shore Railroad at Ravinia Grand Opera. One evening near the middle of the second summer there was unusual excitement in the air, for Madam Bori was leaving for Europe after the evening's opera...
Asked if she were really Matilda Wutzki, a Russian-born Jewess who married Paul Wilson in West Newton, Mass. in 1910, Madam Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins (Mrs. Paul Wilson) laid a long-lived rumor by declaring that her ancestors were all Protestants, had settled in New England before 1680, that her name had always been Frances Perkins, that "this appeal to racial prejudice and the attempt at political propaganda by unworthy innuendo must be repugnant to all honorable men and women." Said she: "There are no Jews in my ancestry. If I were a Jew, I would make...
...Labor Frances Perkins in Washington. Though she was at a formal Cabinet dinner for President Roosevelt, she went at once to a telephone booth in her evening gown, began to argue. Hour later, the strikers agreed to return to the California, await negotiation of their case in Manhattan. Said Madam Secretary Perkins next day: "You can imagine what I looked like when I walked out of that telephone booth...
...Madam Secretary Perkins: He is my friend. ... I believe he will come back...
...poison addict at a glance. I go into the park to walk. I pick out the children who are receiving cocoa, a drink as noxious as the poisonous alcohol. How can I tell? By the degeneracy of the skin, and the tissue around the eyes. It is unfailing. 'Madam,' I say, 'your child is receiving cocoa.' 'Yes,' she replies, 'our physician advised it.' 'Madam,' I say, 'when you administer cocoa to your child, you are giving the dear little one a poisonous drug.' . . . Oh, if the human race...