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| | Encyclopedia: Frances Perkins |
 | | Perkins was asked by President Harry Truman to serve on the United States Civil Service Commission, which she did until 1952 when her husband died, and she resigned from federal service. | | | Perkins as his United States Secretary of Labor, a position she held for twelve years, longer than any other Secretary of Labor and making her the first woman to hold a cabinet position in the United States. | | | Prior to going to Washington, Perkins held positions in state government in New York, first as an aid to Governor Al Smith and then to Franklin Roosevelt when he became Governor. |
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http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Frances-Perkins
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| | Murray State University Women's Center |
| | Frances Perkins served as the Secretary of Labor during the entire Franklin D. Roosevelt administration; in fact, it was one of Roosevelt’s first acts as President of the United States to appoint Perkins to his cabinet in March of 1933. | | | Perkins served under Governors Alfred E. Smith and Franklin D. Roosevelt, and it was because of this record of service under his governorship in New York that Roosevelt quickly appointed Perkins Secretary of Labor. | | | Some industrial leaders refused to work with her because of her out-spoken, female nature, but Frances Perkins, the first female member of a United States Presidential cabinet, was truly a wonder of her time — and ours. |
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http://campus.murraystate.edu/services/women.center/perkins.htm
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| | Frances Perkins |
| | Perkins remained as Secretary of Labor until the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1945. | | | Frances Perkins was born in Boston on 10th April, 1882. | | | (1) Frances Perkins and Franklin Roosevelt, like many people in the early 1900s in the United States, were greatly influenced by the writings of investigative journalists and social realist authors. |
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http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USARperkins.htm
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| | Frances Perkins (1880 - 1965) |
| | Frances Perkins was secretary of labor for the 12 years of Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidency and the first woman to hold a Cabinet post. | | | In 1926, she became chairwoman of the commission, and then, in 1929, the new governor, Franklin D. Roosevelt, appointed Perkins industrial commissioner of the state of New York, the chief post in the state labor department. | | | It was also the unflappable Perkins who advised President Roosevelt to ignore the pleadings of state and local officials for federal troops to quell the 1934 San Francisco General Strike. |
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http://www.aflcio.org/aboutaflcio/history/history/perkins.cfm
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| | JSHQ Volume 14 No.1 - Fall 2002 - Remembering Frances Perkins |
| | Three years later, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected governor and appointed Perkins as the industrial commissioner of New York State. | | | Perkins’ efforts in advancing factory safety led to her appointment as executive secretary of the Committee on Safety, formed as a result of the Triangle fire. | | | Perkins resigned as Secretary of Labor after Roosevelt’s death in 1945. |
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http://www.osha.gov/Publications/JSHQ/fall2002html/perkins.htm
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| | MSN Encarta - Frances Perkins |
| | Frances Perkins (1882-1965), American social reformer, who became the first female member of the Cabinet when United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt named her secretary of labor in 1933. | | | She resigned the position in June 1945, two months after Roosevelt's death, and in the following year was appointed a member of the U.S. Civil Service Commission, on which she served until 1953. | | | As secretary of labor, Perkins became one of the most important executors of Roosevelt's New Deal program. |
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http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/refpages/RefArticle.aspx?refid=761570117
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| | UI101 Frances Perkins |
| | Frances Perkins was born in Boston on April 10, 1880, and graduated from Massachusetts’ Mount Holyoke College in 1903. | | | When Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected governor in 1928, he appointed her as Industrial Commissioner of New York, and when he ascended to the presidency in 1932, he brought Frances Perkins with him to Washington as the country’s first woman Cabinet secretary. | | | But it was ultimately the Social Security Act of 1935 that was to be one of Frances’ lasting contributions to the fabric of American life. |
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http://www.wa.gov/esd/ui/ui101/frances.htm
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| | Frances Perkins |
| | Frances Perkins, an economist and social worker, served in Roosevelt's gubernatorial administration as Industrial Commissioner and became the first female cabinet member when FDR appointed her Secretary of Labor, a position she held throughout Roosevelt's presidency. | | | Perkins was born in Boston April 10, 1880 and christened Fannie Coralie Perkins. | | | Devoted to Roosevelt, she defended his record in her 1946 memoir, The Roosevelt I Knew, and in public lectures. |
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http://www.gwu.edu/~erpapers/abouteleanor/q-and-a/glossary/perkins-frances.htm
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| | Brief History of DOL - The Department in the New Deal and World War II, 1933-1945 |
| | One of the projects Perkins discussed with Roosevelt before accepting her appointment was to have the Department of Labor help state governments deal with labor problems. | | | Perkins left office shortly after Roosevelt died in May 1945. | | | Born in 1880 in Boston and raised in New England, Perkins entered social work in New York State after graduating from college. |
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http://www.dol.gov/asp/programs/history/dolchp03.htm
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| | Reader's Companion to American History - -PERKINS, FRANCES |
| | She was reappointed to that office by Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1929 and retained it until her appointment by him as secretary of labor in 1933. | | | Perkins resigned her position after Roosevelt's death in 1945. | | | She was raised in comfortable, middle-class, Republican circumstances. |
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http://college.hmco.com/history/readerscomp/rcah/html/ah_068100_perkinsfranc.htm
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| | Frances Perkins: Women's History |
| | Perkins graduated from Mount Holyoke College in 1902 and received a master's degree from Columbia University in 1910. | | | She served as secretary of labor under President Franklin D. Roosevelt from 1933 to 1945. | | | Frances Perkins became the first woman Cabinet member in the United States government. |
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http://www2.worldbook.com/features/whm/html/whm086.html
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| | Frances Perkins |
| | Perkins resigned from her position as Secretary of Labor in 1945 to head the U.S. delegation to the International Labor Organization conference, held in Paris. | | | Perkins was graduated from Mount Holyoke College in 1902. | | | It was only two years later, in 1929, that then governor Franklin D. Roosevelt promoted Perkins to be the Industrial Commissioner of New York, the chief post in the state labor department. |
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http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1603.html
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| | Frances Perkins was the U.S. Secretary of Labor throughout Franklin Roosevelt's presidency (1933-1945). | | | After earning an undergraduate degree in her home state of Massachusetts, she moved to New York City, where she became an activist on behalf of the city's working-class immigrant communities at the height of the Progressive Era. | | | At the conclusion of this address, Perkins quotes President Roosevelt on the challenge of preventing economic depressions and guaranteeing Americans' economic security. |
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http://www.utexas.edu/courses/his315L/Perkins.html
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| | American President |
| | Under Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt, Perkins was head of the New York State Department of Labor from 1929 to 1933. | | | Perkins later became a member of the Federal Civil Service Commission under President Harry S. Truman (1946-1952). | | | Frances Perkins died on May 14, 1965, in New York City. |
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http://www.americanpresident.org/history/harrytruman/cabinet/labor/labor/h_index.shtml
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| | History Department at Binghamton University |
| | Perkins utilized her new cabinet position to gather together old Conference allies into a new coalition that pressured both the White House and the Congress to pass federal legislation. | | | Perkins later proudly noted that the NRA codes constituted the first labor standards in the United States which recognized equality between men and women. | | | Besides the obvious example of Perkins, other WJLC leaders served, or had served, in the New York State government: Nelle Swartz, Maud Swartz, Belle Moskowitz, and Frieda Miller. |
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http://www.binghamton.edu/history/resources/bjoh/newdeal.htm
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| | Information about U.S. FDC: 15¢ Frances Perkins |
| | Frances Perkins was born in Boston in 1882, graduated from Mt. Holyoke College and Columbia University, and then trained as a social worker at Chicago's Hull House helping American immigrants. | | | But, with the fighting spirit Roosevelt admired, Frances Perkins accepted the position and became the first woman cabinet member in the United States. | | | Labor leaders and members of Roosevelt's cabinet predicted that no one would cooperate with Perkins because she was a woman and had no experience as a trade union official. |
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http://www.unicover.com/EA1CAG8U.htm
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| | Women of Achievement |
| | Event 03-04-1933: Frances Perkins is sworn in as U.S. Secretary of Labor in the administration of Franklin Delano Roosevelt to becomethe first woman to serve in the cabinet of a U.S. President. | | | Perkins (B. 04-10-1880) had served in state government as head of the industrial commision while FDR was governor of New York. | | | She remained head of the board when Franklin Delano Roosevelt became governor and was the highest paid state employee. |
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http://www.undelete.org/woa/woa03-04.html
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| | Eliza was born on August 1, 1825 in Georgia and is the daughter of Horrace Holtzclaw and Mariah Holtzclaw. | | | Susan was born on June 10, 1822 in Georgia and is the daughter of Archielas Waller and Mary (Hammell) Waller. | | | Ella was born in 1857 in Talbot County, Georgia. |
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http://www.rcasey.net/brooks/broperkn.htm
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| | Spotlight Biography: Labor Reformers |
| | Four years later, after Roosevelt was elected president, he invited Perkins to serve as his secretary of labor. | | | Roosevelt, recently elected governor of New York, appointed Perkins as head of the state labor department. | | | By the time of Roosevelt's death in 1945, Perkins was ready to retire. |
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http://smithsonianeducation.org/spotlight/labor.html
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| | Perkins - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | George Hamilton Perkins (1836-1899; commodore/captain United States Navy) [1] | | | Perkins Arboretum (Colby College arboretum - Waterville, Maine) | | | Perkins Bass (politician - New Hampshire U.S. Congress Representative) |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perkins
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| | Who Was Frances Perkins? |
| | The majority of Frances Perkins papers are housed at Columbia University | | | Frances Perkins : A Member of the Cabinet. | | | It is an honor that she chose to spend her final days at Cornells ILR School. |
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http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/library/research/QuestionOfTheMonth/archive/francesPerkins.html
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| | NPR : Remembering Social Security's Forgotten Shepherd |
| | Perkins was the driving force behind this landmark legislation. | | | She followed her Cabinet years with a stint on the United States Civil Service Commission. | | | She resigned in 1952, after the death of her husband. |
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http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4795737
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| | Lincoln County News |
| | She directed the State Industrial Commission under Gov. Al Smith of New York and in 1929 Franklin Roosevelt, then governor, appointed her head of the state’s Dept. of Labor. | | | Truman on the Civil Service Commission, leaving government in 1953 but lecturing and working on a book, with failing eyesight, right up to her death. | | | Franklin Roosevelt and the first woman to hold a cabinet post. |
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http://www.mainelincolncountynews.com/index.cfm?ID=11397
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| | Francis Perkins |
| | When Franklin Roosevelt became Governor of New York, he appointed Perkins to the post of Industrial Commissioner. | | | From the time of her graduation from Mount Holyoke College in 1902, Perkins was involved in Progressive movements. | | | Perkins was an effective Secretary of Labor, and served for 12 years. |
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http://www.multied.com/Bio/people/Perkins.html
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| | National Women's Hall of Fame - Women of the Hall |
| | She continued to serve after Franklin Roosevelt was elected Governor. | | | When FDR swept into the White House in 1932, he appointed Frances Perkins Secretary of Labor. | | | Perkins was appointed to Governor Al Smith's administration in Albany, serving on the Industrial Commission and the Bureau of Mediation and Arbitration. |
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http://www.greatwomen.org/women.php?action=viewone&id=119
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| | National Portrait Gallery Frances Perkins |
| | When Franklin D. Roosevelt named her secretary of labor in 1933, Perkins was not a newcomer to labor relations. | | | Learn more about Frances Perkins during her twelve years as secretary of labor under President Franklin D. Roosevelt at the following Web sites: | | | One of her personally satisfying triumphs was the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, which mandated a number of reforms for which she had long fought, including a ban on child labor and the establishment of a minimum wage. |
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http://www.npg.si.edu/educate2/perkins.htm
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| | Mary Garrett Hay to Frances Perkins, 10 Dec 1918 |
| | Frances Perkins (1880-1965) became one of the most powerful women in New York state in 1918 when governor Alfred Smith appointed her as a member of the New York State Industrial Commission. | | | In 1933 she became the first woman cabinet member when Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed her Secretary of Labor. | | | This letter from Mary Garrett Hay, President of the Women's City Club, to Frances Perkins, representative of the Maternity Center Association, formalizes the cooperation of the club's clinic with the Association. |
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http://www.binghamton.edu/womhist/wccny/doc7.htm
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| | Epinions.com - ELAINE CHAO IS NO FRANCES PERKINS |
| | It was Perkins who first proposed to Roosevelt the Social Security Act and | | | Perkins insisted that union leaders serve in major Labor Department posts | | | Frances Perkins, the first woman to serve as secretary of labor, the first |
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http://www.epinions.com/content_3920208004
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| | AMAsearchdetail |
| | When Roosevelt became president, he appointed her secretary of labor, making her the first woman appointed to a cabinet position. | | | She thereafter served on the Civil Service Commission until 1952. | | | (See also Frances Perkins Is Appointed Secretary of Labor.) |
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http://www.fofweb.com/onfiles/ama/amasearchdetail.asp?recordpin=8028
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| | Perkins, Frances on Encyclopedia.com |
| | Kirstin Downey Grimsley has a contract to write a biography of Frances Perkins who, as secretary of labor during the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration, was the first female cabinet member.(2001) | | | EUGENICS, SPIRITUALITY, AND SEX DIFFERENTIATION IN EDWARDIAN ENGLAND: The Case of Frances Swiney. | | | She worked at Hull House, was executive secretary of the New York Consumers' League (1910-12) and of the New York Committee on Safety (1912-17), and directed (1912-13) investigations for the New York state factory commission. |
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http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/P/Perkins.asp
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| | The Hutchinson Encyclopedia: Perkins, Frances (1882-1965)@ HighBeam Research |
| | Under Harry Truman she was a member of the federal civil service commission 1946-53. | | | Born in Boston, Massachusetts, and educated at Mount Holyoke, Perkins worked at Hull House settlement house in Chicago... | | | The Hutchinson Encyclopedia: Perkins, Frances (1882-1965)@ HighBeam Research |
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http://www.highbeam.com/library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1P1:100166125&refid=ip_encycl...
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| | Frances Perkin's Ancestry (April 1998) |
| | Note: Perkin's personal papers are housed at Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College; the Franklin Roosevelt Presidential Library at Hyde Park, NY; and at Columbia University] | | | She later said she was born in 1880. | | | A branch of the city's public library is named for her. |
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http://www.h-net.org/~women/threads/disc-perkins.html
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| | The Frances Perkins Program: Postbaccalaureate Studies Program |
| | Frances Perkins postbaccalaureates may qualify for federal aid but are not eligible for institutional financial aid from Mount Holyoke College. | | | With its neighbors Amherst, Hampshire, and Smith Colleges and the University of Massachusetts, Mount Holyoke forms the Five College Consortium, a cooperative arrangement permitting students to take courses and use library facilities at the other colleges without additional cost. | | | will find a valuable community with the undergraduates of non-traditional age who have returned to complete a degree as Frances Perkins scholars. |
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http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/programs/fp/postbac.shtml
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| | Frances Perkins |
| | In 1910, she became head of New York Consumer's League; in 1933 she was appointed to the cabinet. | | | Frances graduated from Mount Holyoke, Pennsylvania University, and Columbia University; were she earned a Master's Degree in sociology. | | | Frances Perkins was the first female member of the Cabinet; she was also a main writer of the New Deal. |
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http://www.bgcs.k12.in.us/bgms/Publish/tmcalhaney
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| | Branches |
| | Opened in 1914, the former Greendale Branch was renamed in 1994 to honor Frances Perkins, who grew up in Worcester and was the first woman presidential cabinet member, serving as Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Secretary of Labor, 1933-1945. | | | The Children's Room at the Frances Perkins Branch offers a wide variety of services and materials. | | | Our team of volunteers help at the Perkins Branch either on a weekly basis (two-hour per week) or during special projects(Book Sale etc.). |
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| | FEMP Technical Assistance: Energy-Efficient Technologies in the Francis Perkins Building |
| | The Frances Perkins Building, completed in 1974, is located on the Washington Mall in Washington, D.C. The building, named after the first woman to serve as a cabinet member, is occupied by approximately 5000 employees. | | | On June 26, 1996, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) presented U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) officials with a plaque recognizing the Frances Perkins Building as DOL's 1996 Federal Energy Saver Showcase. | | | Produced for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, a DOE national laboratory |
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http://www.p2pays.org/ref/20/19660.htm
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| | Frances Perkins |
| | She attended and completed both high school and college. | | | Frances Perkins was the most important person on various committees and was the first woman and longest serving on the cabinet. | | | Frances Perkins eventually lectured at many universities teaching students about the importance of her work. |
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http://www.bgcs.k12.in.us/bgms/Publish/woodallS
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| | "Must a Fellow Wait to Die?": Workers Write to Frances Perkins |
| | The three letters included here (sent to Secretary Perkins) attested to workers’ desperation and to their confidence that the government would agree to investigate. | | | In 1938 the federal government declared silicosis AmericaÌs number one industrial health problem and Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins convened a National Silicosis Conference in Washington, D.C. Despite such attempts to deal with the silicosis crisis, workers continued to complain of their plight. | | | Hundreds of letters were sent to federal officials from across the country. |
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http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/127
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| | Women's History Documentary - You May Call Her Madam Secretary - A Women's History Documentation on Frances Perkins - ... |
| | "Women have got the vote, I think they ought to be in government, I think you should be in government." - Governor Al Smith, 1919, naming Frances Perkins to the New York State Industrial Board. | | | This is a film about the complex Frances Perkins, a New Deal "radical," a believer in state's rights, a driving force behind those reforms which shapes our society. | | | It is a film not only about an individual but about her contemporaries, about how the movement for social justice took hold of and fired the imagination of Frances Perkins and the men and women around her. |
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http://www.vineyardvideo.org/francesperkins.shtml
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| | Oshkosh Northwestern - ‘Little Hollywood’ |
| | After the director shouted “cut,” Frances Perkins watched to see that the extras didn’t wander off. | | | The husband and wife team both have degrees in film and have worked in the industry in New York and Milwaukee. | | | Troy Perkins grew up in the Fox Valley and did his undergraduate work at UWO in film, so when he got a job teaching at his alma mater he wanted to start something big. |
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http://www.wisinfo.com/northwestern/news/features/stories/features_21910790.shtml
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| | Social Security Online History Pages |
| | Barely a month after President Roosevelt presented the Report of the Committee on Economic Security to the Congress, along with the Administration's draft Economic Security Bill, Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins went on a national radio broadcast to explain the Administration's proposals to the American people. | | | This is an archival or historical document and may not reflect current policies or procedures | | | This was one of the earliest popular explanations of what would become the Social Security program. |
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http://www.ssa.gov/history/perkinsradio.html
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| | Direct Mail Marketing Specialists - Woman Owned Business |
| | The award is named for the first woman to hold a Cabinet position as Secretary of Labor. | | | The Small Business Administration instituted the Frances Perkins Vanguard Award to honor government and industry leaders who excel in providing contracts to woman-owned small businesses. | | | The first Frances Perkins Vanguard Award was presented in 1999. |
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http://www.mailcci.com/woman_owned_business/women_owned_business.asp
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