But with the slow menace of... by Frances Perkins, an American Politician

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“But with the slow menace of a glacier, depression came on. No one had any measure of its progress; no one had any plan for stopping it. Everyone tried to get out of its way.”

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Frances Perkins

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Name: Frances Perkins

Nationality: American

Date of Birth: Apr 10, 1882

Date of Death: May 14, 1965

Profession: Politician

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But with the slow menace of a glacier, depression came on. No one had any measure of its progress; no one had any plan for stopping it. Everyone tried to get out of its way.

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In America, public opinion is the leader.

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Most of man's problems upon this planet, in the long history of the race, have been met and solved either partially or as a whole by experiment based on common sense and carried out with courage.

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Being a woman has only bothered me in climbing trees.

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The quality of his being one with the people, of having no artificial or natural barriers between him and them, made it possible for him to be a leader without ever being or thinking of being a dictator.

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