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prohojiy [21]
3 years ago
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Read this quote by Francis Perkins, who witnessed the Triangle shirtwaist factory fire. She later served as Secretary of Labor u

nder President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. In your own words, explain what Perkins meant by referring to the fire as an "episode".
"We really got a big draw out of that one episode, which, as I have thought of it afterwards, seems in some way to have paid the debt society owed to those children those young people who lost their lives in the Triange Fire. Its their contribution to the people of New York that we have this really magnificent series of legislative acts to protect and improve the administration of the law regarding the protection of work[ing] people."
--Francis Perkins, 1964​
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1 answer:
Lelu [443]3 years ago
4 0

Answer:

The rich and ancient history of the Perkins family name dates back to the time of the Anglo-Saxon tribes of Britain. ... In this case the surname Perkins was originally derived from two elements; per a form of Peter and the suffix kin. The literal meaning of the surname is Little Peter, which denotes the son of Peter.

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