Question
While working for the National Consumers League, this advocate witnessed the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, noting a “stricken conscience of public guilt.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this reformer whom Governor Al Smith tapped to chair New York’s Industrial Commission.
ANSWER: Frances Perkins [or Fannie Coralie Perkins]
[10e] Perkins served as Secretary of Labor under this president. In a biography, Kirstin Downey called Perkins “The Woman Behind” a series of public works projects pushed by this president that created the CCC and the WPA.
ANSWER: Franklin Delano Roosevelt [or FDR; prompt on Roosevelt]
[10h] With Perkins’s support, this politician authored a bill to preserve provisions of Section 7(a) from an earlier legislation gutted by the Supreme Court. Perkins had earlier served with Smith and this politician on a commission to investigate the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire.
ANSWER: Robert F. Wagner [or Robert Ferdinand Wagner]
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Summary
| 2023 ACF Nationals | 04/22/2023 | Y | 15 | 17.33 | 100% | 60% | 13% |
Data
| Brown A | Florida A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Chicago B | Chicago A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Johns Hopkins A | Vanderbilt A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| McGill A | Penn State A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Stanford A | Georgia Tech A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Toronto A | Minnesota A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| UC Berkeley A | Columbia A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Indiana A | Cornell B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Harvard A | North Carolina A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Texas A | Chicago C | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Iowa State A | WUSTL B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Cornell A | Ohio State A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| WUSTL A | Maryland A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| UC Berkeley B | Imperial A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Yale A | Duke A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |