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2. Isabel Fichter to Grace Brewer, 6 January 1936, in Pardo, ed., reel 57.

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4. Mary Anderson, “Women in Government Service,” radio talk from Washington, D.C., during Business Women's Week, 8–14 March 1931, in Sealander, Judith, ed., Records of the Women's Bureau of the U.S. Department of Labor, 1918–1965, National Archives, Part I: Reports of the Director, Annual Summaries, Major Conferences, Speeches, and Articles (microfilm, 23 reels, University Press of America, 1986), reel 15.Google Scholar

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7. Quoted in Oaks, “Should Married Women Work?” 405.

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12. Scharf, To Work and to Wed, 46–47, and Equal Rights 18 (13 August 1932), 219, in Pardo, ed., reel 155. For the debate in the U.S. Senate on Section 213, the adverse newspaper criticism, and President Hoover's condemnation of the Economy Act of 1932, see Equal Rights 18 (13 August 1932), 219–23, in Pardo, ed., reel 155. For the details surrounding the conference, see Scharf, To Work and to Wed, 47. The figure of 1,900 employees is based on the questionnaires sent out by the U.S. Department of Labor's Women's Bureau and the National Woman's Party's Government Workers' Council in June 1935, as discussed in the section accompanying endnote 34. The three-fourths figure comes from a preliminary study conducted by the U.S. Department of Labor's Women's Bureau in early 1935, as also discussed below.

13. See the cover of Equal Rights 19 (22 April 1933) and the account of the visit of the women's delegation with Lewis Douglas, as well as Mrs. Roosevelt's press conference statement on page 95 of same issue, in Pardo, ed., reel 155. Maud Younger to Marvin McIntyre, 15 April 1933, in Official File 252, Franklin D. Roosevelt Library.

14. Edna Coleman to Louis H. Howe, April (?) 1933, Edna Coleman to Franklin D. Roosevelt, 25 April 1933, and Louis H. Howe to Mrs. Edward [Edna] Coleman, 29 April 1933, all in Official File 252, Franklin D. Roosevelt Library.

15. Handwritten note from a Mare F. Simmel on White House stationery, apparently April 1933 (emphasis in original) and Marvin McIntyre to Franklin D. Roosevelt, 12 June 1933; Cummings to Roosevelt, 24 June 1933; Marvin McIntyre to Lewis Douglas, 15 June 1933, and Lewis Douglas to Marvin McIntyre, 27 June 1933, all in Official File 252, Franklin D. Roosevelt Library.

16. E. Claude Babcock to Harriet H. Sheppard, 8 July 1935, in Pardo, ed., reel 55.

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18. The term “social justice feminism” is derived from the introduction to Social Justice Feminists in the United States and Germany: A Dialogue in Documents, 1885–1933, ed. Sklar, Kathryn Kish, Schüler, Anja, and Strasser, Susan (Ithaca, 1998), 5–11Google Scholar. See also Felix Frankfurter, “Hours of Labor and Realism in Constitutional Law,” 29 Harvard Law Review (February 1916), 367 (emphases in original); Sklar, Kathryn Kish, “Two Political Cultures in the Progressive Era: The National Consumers' League and the American Association for Labor Legislation,” in U.S. History as Women's History: New Feminist Essays, ed. Kerber, Linda K., Kessler-Harris, Alice, and Sklar, Kathryn Kish (Chapel Hill, 1995), 51Google Scholar; and McGuire, John Thomas, “From the Courts to the State Legislatures: Social Justice Feminism, Labor Legislation, and the 1920s,” Labor History 45 (05 2004), 225–246.Google Scholar

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21. Alice Paul to Katherine Morey, 20 March 1921, in Pardo, ed., reel 7.

22. Molly Dewson to Felix Frankfurter, 27 November 1928, in The Felix Frankfurter Papers (microform, 165 reels, Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1983), reel 100, and Molly Dewson to Isador Lubin, 16 April 1957, 2, in Scott, Ann Firor, ed., Mary Williams (Molly) Dewson Papers, 1893–1962, Women's Studies Manuscript Collections, Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library for the History of Women, Series 2: Women in National Parties, Part A: Democrats (microform, 14 reels, University Press of America, 1992), reel 3Google Scholar. For Eleanor Roosevelt's creation of the partnership between the Women's Joint Legislative Conference and New York's Democratic Party in the 1920s, see McGuire, John Thomas, “Making the Democratic Party a Partner: Eleanor Roosevelt, the Women's Joint Legislative Conference, and the Women's Division of the New York State Democratic Party, 1921–1927,” Hudson Valley Regional Review 18 (09 2001): 29–48Google Scholar. For her support of Frances Perkins, see Eleanor Roosevelt to Franklin D. Roosevelt, 22 November 1928, quoted in Lash, Joseph A., Eleanor and Franklin (New York, 1971; 1995), 323Google Scholar. For Eleanor Roosevelt's inclusion of Dewson into national Democratic Party circles, see Cook, Blanche Wiesen, Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume II: 1933–1938 (New York, 1999), 67–69Google Scholar, and Ware, Beyond Suffrage, 43–67.

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26. For Rose Schneiderman's protest, see Louis H. Howe to Lewis Douglas, 12 July 1933, in Official File 252, Franklin D. Roosevelt Library. (The letter from Rose Schneiderman apparently has been lost.)

27. Phyllis Gale to Clara Hargreaves, 31 October 1933, in Pardo, ed., reel 54.

28. McGuire, “A Catalyst for Reform,” 220–21. See also Mary Anderson's papers, now on microfilm in the edition of the Papers of the Women's Trade Union League and Its Principal Leaders.

29. McGuire, “A Catalyst for Reform,” 220. Mary Anderson, “What the New Deal Will Do for Women,” in Sealander, ed., Records of U.S. Department of Labor's Women's Bureau, Microfilm Edition, Part I, reel 22. For the controversy within the New Deal about the National Recovery Administration's discriminatory minimum-wage codes, see other cites, as well as “Minutes of the Council of the National Woman's Party, September 9, 1933,” in Pardo, ed., reel 114. Mary Anderson, “Women Workers and the New Deal,” 9 January 1937, in Sealander, ed., Records of U.S. Department of Labor's Women's Bureau, Part I, reel 22. For an excellent overview of Anderson's creation of alliances from 1920 through 1933, see chapter 1 of Kathleen Laughlin, A., “Backstage Activism: The Policy Initiatives of the Women's Bureau of the U.S. Department of Labor in the Postwar Era, 1945–1970” (Ph.D. diss., Ohio State University, 1993).Google Scholar

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31. Ibid., 1.

32. Tables 1 through 9 of the “Section 213 Preliminary Report, September 23, 1935,” in Pardo, ed., The National Woman's Party Papers, reel 114.

33. “Section 213 Report,” 22. The exact number of federal government employees fired under Section 213 from its implementation in 1932 through its repeal five years later cannot be known for sure, since government agencies did not have to notify the Civil Service Commission of the firings. The commission later estimated that “from 1600 through 1800” employees were fired. Mallon, “Empty Triumph.”

34. For the National Woman's Party's continuing opposition to women's labor legislation, see Lee Terrys Perlman to Rebekkah Greathouse, 13 October 1935, and Helen Robbins Bittermann to Florence Bayard Hilles, 14 October 1935, both in Pardo, ed., reel 55. “Minutes of the Council of the National Woman's Party, January 8, 1937,” in Pardo, ed., reel 114. Owen to Anderson, 13 October 1935, and Mary Anderson to Edwina Avery, 10 January 1936, in Pardo, ed., reel 57.

35. Iola J. Comish to Harriet Sheppard, 26 March 1936, in Pardo, ed., reel 57.

36. Scharf, To Work and to Wed, 46, 50.

37. Doolittle, Jan P., “Organized Women Under Attack: The Women's Joint Congressional Committee and Its Legislative Campaigns for Mothers and Children, 1920–1930” (Ph.D. diss., State University of New York at Binghamton, 2000), 54–58, 117–81, 444–53Google Scholar. Elizabeth Christman, secretary-treasurer of the national wtul to Alice L. Edwards, 8 December 1932, Alice L. Edwards to Dr. Sophonisba P. Breckinridge, 9 May 1933, Lucy R. Mason, general secretary of the ncl, to Mary T. Bannerman, 20 November 1936, and reply from Mary T. Bannerman to Lucy R. Mason, 11 December 1936, all in Sullivan, Joseph D., ed., The Records of the Women's Joint Congressional Committee, 1920–1970 (microfilm, 7 reels, Library of Congress Manuscript Division, 1983), reel 2Google Scholar. Form for Women's Joint Congressional Committee members, dated 15 November 1933, and Marian I. Pankhurst, National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs, to Mary T. Bannerman, 18 January 1937, both in Sullivan, ed., Records of Women's Joint Congressional Committee, 1920–1970, reel 2. See also “Annual Report of the Committee on Dismissal of Married Persons in the Civil Service, Women's Joint Congressional Committee,” 3 December 1934, in Box 158, Folder 17, in Selma Dorschardt Papers (Labor Archives, Detroit).

38. Scharf, To Work and to Wed, 50. Edna A. Patterson to Edwina Avery, 19 January 1936 (quotation), and from Harriet Sheppard to Elsie M. Valentine, 14 January 1936, both in Pardo, ed., reel 57.

39. Representative Howard W. Smith to E. E. Biehl, January 1936 (Smith was chairman of the House Rules Committee at the time); Government Workers' Council to Members, 14 January 1936; Harriet Sheppard to Representative W. B. Bankhead, 21 January 1936; Harriet Sheppard to Gelene McDonald Bowman, 3 March 1936; Priscilla Lawyer Randolph to Franklin D. Roosevelt, 6 March 1936; and Constance A. Sporborg, chairman, legislative department of General Federation of Women's Clubs, to Harriet Sheppard, 16 April 1936, all in Pardo, ed., reel 57. Betty Gram Swing, “Report of Congressional Committee, January 1 to April 17, [1936],” in Pardo, ed., reel 57. National Poll of Public Opinion (15 November 1936), copy in Series 2, Box 340, Government and Legal Status of Women Folder, National League of Women Voters' Papers (Library of Congress Manuscript Division, Washington, D.C.)

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