Word: madams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Secretary Hull's patience is again under heavy pressure. While the Recovery program hoists tariffs and embargoes, he is to be shipped to South America to try to make trade treaties. Madam Secretary of Labor Perkins keeps her department serene but Agriculture under Secretary Wallace and his colleague AAAdministrator Peek is restive. So are the Interior and Public Works offices under Mr. Ickes, sweating to put Federal billions to work. There are many cross-assignments, touching the Treasury's work. A switch of last week in the Home Loan Bank Board, stepping Vice Chairman John H. Fahey...
...plug tobacco, he found button shoes listed as an item used by the Department of Labor in calculating its periodic Cost-of-Living index. The President needed no style expert to inform him that such footwear was now an anachronism even in the back-country districts. Suspecting that Madam Secretary Perkins' statisticians were behind the times on other articles in daily use, he ordered a complete revision and modernization of all the hundreds of items which go into the computation. This order was prime news for all Federal employes whose salaries rise and fall in direct ratio...
...General" Farley used about the same oblique strategy when week before he got Madam Secretary of Labor Perkins to accept American Federation of Labor's Edward Francis McGrady as her No. 1 assistant. When Miss Perkins was appointed, the A. F. of L. was outraged because she had no union card. Jim Farley tried to smooth the A. F. of L. down by putting Mr. McGrady into the sub-Cabinet. But Madam Secretary Perkins, no politician, balked, refused to have him or any other Farley candidate. Months passed during which she met Mr. McGrady repeatedly at NRA headquarters where...
...back entrance. Day after day the patient rifleman waited. After a week's slinking Garr, worried lest the story of his plight leak out and raise a laugh at his expense, called off his ambusher by printing an apology. When Carrie Watson, his mistress but a madam in her own right, bore him a son whom she refused to surrender, they parted coldly. Garr balanced their account when she died of an overdose of laudanum and the Chronicle announced: CARRIE WATSON COLLECTS WAGES OF SIN-CRIME NEVER PAYS. An enraged mob once wrecked the Chronicle's plant...
...only reconciled to but jubilant over Miss Perkins. She had clearly showed her stripe when she stood up for mill workers at the steel code hearing before NRA (TIME, Aug. 7). That hearing was to have been the first important test of the union v. non-union issue. Madam Secretary Perkins had gone in person to the steel mills of Pittsburgh and Baltimore to talk with employes. She returned to Washington prepared to make vigorous war on the steel industry's proposed company unions-''War bridegrooms" she called them, harking back to the able-bodied citizens...