National Affairs: Madam Queen Up

Her Majesty, Mary the Good of England, has many queenly prerogatives, one of which is to wear hats of a famed pattern. Secretary Frances Perkins of the Department of Labor, nicknamed in Washington "Madam Queen," also has many prerogatives. One of them, to wear tricorn hats, she has exercised for many a year. Another, to conciliate labor disputes, she has had since taking office but has not notably exercised. In the crowd of angry disputants in the automobile labor trouble, the Weirton Steel case, the Budd body strike, the Alabama miners' walkout, the...

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