Word: madams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington knew last week that Madam Secretary Perkins was one who wanted changes in NRA. Considering the number of times she and Mr. Richberg had been in session with the President it seemed not at all unlikely that she might reach her goal...
...competition, tends to look askance on such measures. If his views are followed in reorganizing NRA, price-fixing may go by the boards, along with limitation of production, and suspension of the anti-trust laws. That, at least, is the direction of his inclinations and those of his partner, Madam Secretary Perkins...
This did not silence protest. Tories demanded to know: 1) when Madam Perkins had ever declared a strike "unjustified"; 2) when, politics being what they are, she or the Labor Board ever would do so. The Illinois Manufacturers Association protested thus to Administrator Hopkins...
...biggest industry would soon be without a job as the result of a "national cotton textile strike," called by the United Textile Workers of America, affiliate of the A. F. of L. Preliminary negotiations having fallen flat, union leaders proclaimed their intention of fighting to a finish. Madam Secretary Perkins, said Washington wags, had fainted when she heard the news. The report was false and besides her office promptly denied that the Secretary of Labor had ever fainted in her life...
...regular office, was at work on more measures, fallible in origin but divine in purpose. NRA make-over took much of his time. General Johnson had gone off to Bethany Beach, Del. for a two-week rest and left the President's ear open to Donald Richberg and Madam Secretary Perkins. So significant did newshawks deem the situation that some reported the General's resignation while others telephoned to Bethany Beach to ask him whether he had had a break with his associates...