Word: madams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Susanna Winslow Perkins Wilson, 21, well-dressed daughter of Paul Caldwell Wilson and Mrs. Wilson (better known as Madam Secretary Frances Perkins); to David Meredith Hare, 21, Manhattan color photographer; in Manhattan. The groom's best man was Medill McCormick, son of Illinois' onetime Representative, Republican Ruth Hanna McCormick Simms, and grandson of Mark Hanna. Among the bride's guests at the church were New York's Democratic Representative Caroline O'Day and Mrs. James Aloysius Farley...
...Department of Labor's 25th anniversary dinner, a message from the President to Madam Secretary Perkins was read aloud. Excerpt: "Today there is general recognition that there should be a floor to wages and a ceiling to hours...
Later that evening, like troupers doing a two-a-night, the cast of Pins & Needles moved on to Washington's Mayflower Hotel to perform before Madam Secretary Perkins and 1,000 others, in honor of the 25th anniversary of the Department of Labor. At the Mayflower the show went over big a second time. In the audience was William Green, President of the A. F. of L.; conspicuously absent was John L. Lewis, who is at outs with I. L. G. W. U.'s Dubinsky. During the song One Big Union for Two, which is propaganda...
...study made for WPA that 2,000,000 workers have lost their jobs since September 1, that between 1,000,000 and 2,000,000 more will do so before February 1. Acting WPAdministrator Aubrey Williams reported that 100,000 names had been added to WPA rolls. And Madam Secretary of Labor Perkins announced that 570,000 lost their jobs between mid-October and mid-November, that weekly industrial payrolls fell...
...nature in the role of antagonist to wage-&-hour legislation. Hence last week's fight was conducted mainly along sectional lines. Leaders of the opposition were Sam McReynolds of Chattanooga, who predicted that the Bill would "put the life and death struggle of industry in the hands of Madam Perkins," and Martin Dies of Orange, Tex. who said: "Let me ask you boys from the North this. . . . Why have you set yourselves up as arbiters to undertake to say to us that our living conditions are not proper and do not constitute the standard of living that you seem...