Word: madams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...government buildings in Washington. Last June Postmaster General Farley moved into his monumental new Post Office Building on Pennsylvania Avenue and found it good. Last October Attorney General Cummings moved into his monumental new Department of Justice Building on Pennsylvania Avenue and also found it good. This month Madam Secretary Perkins was to move into her monumental new Labor Department Building on Constitution Avenue. By last week, however, moving day had been postponed because the first woman in a President's Cabinet had just inspected her new quarters and found them not at all to her liking...
...Madam Secretary Perkins called in the architects, demanded an immediate change. The bedeviled architects protested. Madam Secretary insisted. Moving day for the Department was postponed. Carpenters tore down the second door and masons replaced it with a brick wall two feet thick to protect the Secretary's privacy. Hastily a corner of the Solicitor's office was hedged off for a second bathroom for Mr. Wyzanski's private...
...Senate Leader Robinson, Speaker Byrns and Chairman Buchanan of the House Appropriations Committee, convinced them that he must be given $4,000,000,000, without any strings tied to it, for putting men to work. Reason: The manner of spending it had not yet been worked out. Next with Madam Secretary Perkins and another Congressional delegation he put the finishing touches to his social security program, making the point that it was not to cost the Government more than $100,000,000 during the first year...
While many a young career diplomat bites his nails and pines for a squib about himself which may catch the eye of President Roosevelt or Secretary Hull, grandmotherly Madam Minister Ruth Bryan Owen continues to beat all State Department records for sustained publicity in her minor post in Denmark. Peering inquisitively into Mrs. Roosevelt's shrimp cocktail, Mrs. Owen lately achieved a pose of definite news-picture appeal (see cut). Last week "Big Ruth," as her three grandchildren call her, returned to her post, and a Danish despatch revealed how thoroughly Madam Minister has the local correspondents in hand...
...admiring tribute Fannie Hurst has written: "Gangplank for Madam Minister! . . . Diplomacy is as feminine as ships and cats and south wind and lipstick. Diplomacy rises in the female heart and becomes an underground river, running swiftly beneath the surface of the sex. . . . The greatest political diplomats of the world have been . . . Pompadours, De Staels, Helens. . . . The poised, experienced, gorgeously equipped Madam Minister of today is schooled to her finger tips." At her arrival last week, Danish orchestras burst into ''Springtime in Denmark- Lilacs in Bloom," the words by Madam Minister, music by her daughter, "Ruth the Second...