Word: madams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Into the Blue Room at one time or another during the week also trotted Secretary Wallace, Secretary Ickes, Madam Secretary Perkins, Professor George F. Warren, Governor Black of the Federal Reserve (see p. 58), Governor Harrison of the New York Reserve Bank, Acting Relief Administrator Aubrey Williams. Drought Relief Administrator Lawrence Westbrook, AAAdministrator Chester C. Davis, Donald Richberg, General Johnson (see p.11). If any of them had brought anything so simple as a bag of corn, Franklin Roosevelt would have been pleased...
Peace but not much enlightenment was brought to the dispute last week by the Department of Labor. Since the Federal employment service was opened in July 1933, announced Madam Secretary Perkins, 12,634,974 applications have been received. In the past year, 6,951,523 jobs have been parcelled out. But at least 4,123,000 men (CWA workers) later lost those jobs. So the 7,000,000 "open file" applications mean little...
...Receiving reports on the San Francisco strike and radioing Madam Secretary Perkins: "You may say that I have expressed to you and to the public my confidence that common sense and good order will prevail...
...workers on strike lost 10,222,000 man-days during the first five months of 1934. Since May strikes have multiplied and grown bigger. On the Pacific Coast, the maritime workers alone are estimated to have lost 1,900,000 days' work. On the basis of Madam Perkins' figures, dopesters last week figured that so far this year U. S. Labor had struck itself out of 15,000,000 days-or 41,000 years-of work and probably $75.000.000 of pay. Among other strikes of last week which were making headlines for the Press, work for conciliators...
...special adviser." Lloyd Garrison, chairman of the new National Labor Relations Board, sent the Board's chief examiner, P. A. Donoghue, to San Francisco. The Labor Department ordered a conciliator up from Dallas. But the Federal Government showed reluctance to embroil itself further. At her Washington desk sat Madam Secretary of Labor Perkins...