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Frances Perkins: “City Diets and Democracy”

( 1941 )

Glossary

  • British Dominions former British possessions that still acknowledged the British monarch as head of state—Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and others
  • canteens eating places
  • inverse relationship a relationship in which one side increases as the other decreases and vice versa—as, for example, the more poverty, the greater the need for adequate health care
  • the last depression the 1918–1921 U.S. economic slump, which followed World War I
  • WPA the Works Progress Administration, a New Deal program that existed from 1935 to 1943
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Frances Perkins (Library of Congress)

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