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Sixth Floor. Full of pride over the success of the Conference, and full of congratulations for "Missy" Meloney, to whom she gave all credit, Helen Rogers Reid lost no time getting back to the Herald Tribune Building a block from Times Square. Her office is in a corner of the sixth floor, one story above the city room. It is a man's room. Seated in a man's chair, at a man's desk, Mrs. Reid looks singularly small and frail. Tiny she is; frail she is not. Her grey hair is bobbed and waved...
...Conference is called every year by the New York Herald Tribune. It began in 1930 when Mrs. William Brown Meloney, able editor of the Herald Tribune's Sunday magazine, observed that the work of various women's clubs might well be correlated. In cooperation with the club women the Herald Tribune secured potent speakers to give them food for their forums. The first meeting, scheduled for the Herald Tribune's auditorium, overflowed to the Hotel Astor. The next, held at the Waldorf, was an even greater success. This year no less than 38,000 women applied...
Thereupon some 50 distinguished men and women began taking turns at the speaker's rostrum where alert, bird-like Mrs. Meloney presided, or before microphones in faraway places. Busy Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt dashed down from Hyde Park to give the Conference one of her neat little speeches which sound so much more important than they look in print. Said she: "The higher standards which women now set themselves, for whatever work they engage in, will raise the standard of men's work. . . . The biggest change in standards must come [in] the field of business and of labor...
Attorney General Cummings whose men caught John Dillinger and Indiana's Governor McNutt, whose men let him escape, talked about crime. Madam Secretary Perkins urged unemployment insurance; and President Stanley King of Amherst College warned against rushing headlong into it. When Mrs. Meloney pushed a card at Theodore Roosevelt reading "You have one more minute," that speaker swept it aside and talked for three more about "worthwhile work." There was a session on "Changing Standards in the Arts," with contributions from Will Irwin, Hugh Walpole, Pearl Buck, Lawrence Tibbett, Harvey Wiley Corbett, a session on Youth, a session...
...female executives. There are Mrs. Helen W. Leavitt, assistant advertising manager; Elsa Lang, promotion director; Esther Kimmel in charge of the Home Economics Department; Books Editor Irita Van Doren; Mary Day Winn, assistant fiction editor; Book Critic Isabel Paterson. And most important, presiding on the ninth floor, Marie Mattingly Meloney...