Word: madams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...General Sherman said: 'Madam, you got spunk'"). Last week Atlanta was more self-conscious of its present and its past than any other U. S. town...
...scientists have a story about the social scientist who measured the intelligence of convicts in prison. He found it just as high as the intelligence of the civil population, delivered a popular lecture on his finding. A woman in the audience got up and asked him what intelligence was. "Madam," said the scientist loftily, "intelligence is that which these measurements measure...
...neat anomaly was to be found last week in the statistics of 1939's war boom. In October the Federal Reserve production index reached 120, past its 1937 peak of 118. Yet October employment (up 1,250,000 from 1938, according to Madam Secretary Perkins) was down by more than 1,000,000 men from 1937's peak...
Because a Federal law dating back to 1870 forbids Army officers on active duty to hold civilian office, Madam Perkins had to appoint a dummy administrator, make Colonel Fleming technically subject to this figurehead as well as to her. Chosen for this temporary front job was Wage-Hour's white-maned, competent publicity man, Harold Duane Jacobs, a onetime Scripps-Howard editor who is capable of going to work in a green sports coat with orange stripes, pea-green vest, blue tie, grey shirt and grey flannels...
...with Elmer Andrews went his playwriting Deputy Administrator Paul Sifton and an executive assistant, George McEwen. Summarily fired by Madam Perkins, without the usual two-week notice, was Elmer Andrews' secretary and right-hand woman, handsome Eugenia Pope. Efficient, 33-year-old Miss Pope did much to make life bearable for her boss, fending off importunate callers and imposing order in an office not always noted for order. Miss Pope quickly got offers from other Federal bureaus and private business. Luckless Mr. Andrews, who gave up a $12,000-a-year job with New York State to take...