How the Nation's First 'Madam Secretary' Fought to Save Jewish Refugees Fleeing From Nazi Germany
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A 1937 photograph of Frances Perkins, the first female cabinet secretary in American history Public domain via Wikimedia Commons She nearly missed the president’s inauguration, but when she got there, she stole the spotlight. On a mud-swept afternoon in March 1933, Washington, D.C. reporters thronged around Frances Perkins, the newly appointed secretary of labor under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. It had been…
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