Word: madams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First, as ever, came the Cabinet, in order of importance headed by Secretary of State Hull, tailed by Madam Secretary of Labor Perkins, (She was the only Cabinet member unaccompanied by her spouse, Mr. Paul Wilson.) Second came Congress, as represented by Senator Pat Harrison. Third, to the surprise of many a guest, came Presidential Secretaries Louis McHenry Howe and Stephen T. Early, ahead of the diplomats home for the holidays: Ambassador Long from Rome, Ambassador Weddell from Buenos Aires, Ambassador Bullitt from Moscow, Minister Emmet from The Hague. Others with their relative places in the social scale: Episcopal Bishop...
Other Washington women fancied themselves in the following rôles: Mrs. Cordell Hull, a gypsy; Mrs. Homer Cummings, a Spanish matron; Mrs. Claude Swanson, a Dutch girl; Madam Secretary Perkins, a braintruster (cap & gown); Mrs. Donald Richberg, "The Mystery of the New Deal'' (an alphabet-spangled dress); Mrs. Henry Wallace, a Yugoslav peasant; Mrs. Daniel Roper, a court lady of the Second Empire; Mrs. Henry Morgenthau Jr., a court lady of the 18th Century; Mrs. George Dern, one of the wives of Brigham Young; Anna Roosevelt Dall, The Devil...
Maurice is not at his best here. He preserves an unmistakable air of the gutter and of the trotter; as the Army officer who is the champion rake of all Europe, he is not so convincing. His Jeanette, as Madam the Widow, seems to be reaching the age of retirement. Her equine face is not at its best in nineteenth century dress, but she still sings well, and to Herr Lehar goes the credit for her success...
Even the President's fireside "truce" proposal, which sounded straight forward enough as it came out of loudspeakers, began to take on a tenuous air as White House interpreters got to work on it. Emerging from a conference with President Roosevelt, Madam Secretary of Labor Perkins explained that during the "trial period" Labor would not be asked to foreswear the strike. Secretary Stephen Early made it known that employers would still be free to invoke the lockout, and decision to submit their troubles to arbitration or mediation would have to come voluntarily from each side...
Attorney General Cummings whose men caught John Dillinger and Indiana's Governor McNutt, whose men let him escape, talked about crime. Madam Secretary Perkins urged unemployment insurance; and President Stanley King of Amherst College warned against rushing headlong into it. When Mrs. Meloney pushed a card at Theodore Roosevelt reading "You have one more minute," that speaker swept it aside and talked for three more about "worthwhile work." There was a session on "Changing Standards in the Arts," with contributions from Will Irwin, Hugh Walpole, Pearl Buck, Lawrence Tibbett, Harvey Wiley Corbett, a session on Youth, a session...