Word: madams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Call Me Madam Secretary." During the following twelve years-the era of New Deal reform, unprecedented labor strife and the huge demands of World War II-the tricorn hat, the patrician Boston accent and the impassioned air of the social worker became a signal for battle to opponents of the Secretary of Labor. John L. Lewis, caustic head of the United Mine Workers, called her "woozy in the head," adding that although she would make an excellent housekeeper she didn't know as much about economics "as a Hottentot does about moral...
Despite Ickes' blasts, Madam Perkins, as she was often called ("Call me Madam Secretary," she had told her staff), tried to corral her tongue and happily recounted the amazed remark of that gnarled old Texan, Vice President John Nance Garner, after Roosevelt's first Cabinet meeting: "You're all right. You've got something on your mind, you said it, and then you stopped." Said Madam Perkins: "I guess he feared I would be a vague woman-not quite sure of anything. Really I don't believe men would long tolerate vague women in public...
...Hearing that the visitor to her sunbaked village was the top man in the Dominican Republic, an old woman instinctively shouted, "Viva el generalisimo!" Donald Reid Cabral, 41, chief of the country's governing junta, turned and smiled wryly. "Madam," he replied, "I am not even a private...
...anger, without premeditation. The definition did not necessarily fit the circumstances of the Fein case, but the jury was not about to send a man to the chair on the say-so of the chief witness, Gloria Kendal, described by a defense attorney as "this procuress, this prostitute, this madam, this diabolically clever creature...
...maintained his attractive wife, Nancy, and their three children. But Fein, slender, bespectacled and Milquetoast-mild in appearance, frittered away a small fortune on a pair of extracurricular pursuits-gambling and Gloria Kendal. In her 37 years, the last 16 of them spent as a prostitute and a madam, Gloria has been known by at least 13 other proper names and by any number of improper ones. Whatever her name, Fein certainly did like her game. According to the prosecution, he spent up to $700 a month "in return for the sexual favors rendered by Gloria and her girls," once...