Word: madams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ames. In 1693 Maria Katherine Smith was painted by her father, Captain Thomas Smith. The Worcester Art Museum's director, Francis Henry Taylor, believes the two Smiths are one, hopes to establish by x-rays that he also painted the portraits of Captain George Curwen, Major Thomas Savage, Madam Freake and Baby Mary, all of which were hanging last week in the Worcester Museum...
...Majesty, Mary the Good of England, has many queenly prerogatives, one of which is to wear hats of a famed pattern. Secretary Frances Perkins of the Department of Labor, nicknamed in Washington "Madam Queen," also has many prerogatives. One of them, to wear tricorn hats, she has exercised for many a year. Another, to conciliate labor disputes, she has had since taking office but has not notably exercised. In the crowd of angry disputants in the automobile labor trouble, the Weirton Steel case, the Budd body strike, the Alabama miners' walkout, the Manhattan taxicab strike and many another...
Those who went to Washington on Labor questions last week went to see "Madam Queen." Her prestige had grown while others' had shrunk. She received President Green of the A. F. of L. and President Mike Tighe of the steel workers with their proposals for settling steel's labor troubles. She took the plan to the White House, explained it to the President, stood by while he interviewed the union men. To leave no doubt of her new importance the President issued a formal announcement: "I have referred the proposal to the Secretary of Labor for careful study...
...Majesty, the Widow (by John Charles Brownell) is the vehicle which oldtime Tragedienne Pauline Frederick (Madam X) put together in San Diego, Calif, in May 1933. After a 13-month drive across the western plains, it arrives on Broadway creaking like a stagecoach. So familiar has Miss Frederick become with every bolt and board in its rusty structure that she is inclined to overact, grimacing broadly at every tiresome turn, popping wide her eyes and flapping her hands at each sorry nuance...
...must be ratified by a two-thirds majority of all West Coast I. L. A. members. Because such a majority still seemed to be in a fighting mood no one could yet say that the West Coast's biggest strike was over. In an open letter to Madam Secretary of Labor Perkins, the radical New Masses crowed : "You wanted a first-class strike. Come to the Pacific . . and you will...