Word: madams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this end, Mr. Roosevelt said he would call a meeting this month between "small groups" of representatives of large bodies of labor and management to agree on "a specific trial period of industrial peace." What form this trial would take remained to be seen, though Madam Secretary Perkins later announced that Labor would not be asked to surrender its right to strike...
When Nurse Keislich showed eagerness to go on with the details, the presiding Justice reproved her. Said he: "My dear Madam, you have teeth in your mouth to clamp down on your tongue...
...Champlain, fastest patrol boat on the New Jersey coast, was ordered to take on an oceanographer, proceed to Greenland on a "scientific cruise," get back as fast as it could. But the Champlain could not get back in time to answer the SOS of the liner Morro Castle, save Madam Minister Owen and her benefactor the embarrassment of explaining to Delaware's Republican Senator Hastings why "the gem of the Coast Guard fleet was taken from its regular station near the scene of the disaster and sent on a needless junket...
Driving to Boston to speak over the radio, Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins fretted in a Labor Day traffic jam outside Brunswick, Me. To escape from a tangle with two other cars, her chauffeur swerved into a ditch, lost control, over turned her sedan. Madam Secretary Per kins, badly jolted, canceled her afternoon engagement, delivered her speech that evening...
...Behind him a tax collector was removing a citizen's shirt. In the centre sat Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau?a clown juggling money with a lap full of gold bricks. General Hugh S. Johnson was jumping irascibly on the roped figure of Industry. Also to be seen were Madam Secretary Perkins, Postmaster General Farley, Uncle Sam on a cross, dying cattle, silent factories, skulls, reaching arms, and a reformer chasing nudes out of the cinema...