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Charles W. 'Chuck' Bryant

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1273 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

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Selects: Frances Perkins: Influential and Unknown

Yeah, big time. This is post-college. She went to Philly. and she became general secretary of the Philadelphia Research and Protective Association.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: Frances Perkins: Influential and Unknown

Yeah, big time. This is post-college. She went to Philly. and she became general secretary of the Philadelphia Research and Protective Association.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: Frances Perkins: Influential and Unknown

Well, she was in charge of investigating โ€“ employment agencies that were fake and that preyed on women, immigrant women specifically. And she had to sort of deal with the dregs of society in that job and did so very successfully and then decided she wanted to keep her education going.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: Frances Perkins: Influential and Unknown

Well, she was in charge of investigating โ€“ employment agencies that were fake and that preyed on women, immigrant women specifically. And she had to sort of deal with the dregs of society in that job and did so very successfully and then decided she wanted to keep her education going.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: Frances Perkins: Influential and Unknown

Well, she was in charge of investigating โ€“ employment agencies that were fake and that preyed on women, immigrant women specifically. And she had to sort of deal with the dregs of society in that job and did so very successfully and then decided she wanted to keep her education going.

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Selects: Frances Perkins: Influential and Unknown

So while she was in Philly, she went to the Wharton School of Finance and Commerce at the University of Pennsylvania because that's super easy and light learning. And then after that, She went to Columbia where she earned a M.A. in social economics in 1910.

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Selects: Frances Perkins: Influential and Unknown

So while she was in Philly, she went to the Wharton School of Finance and Commerce at the University of Pennsylvania because that's super easy and light learning. And then after that, She went to Columbia where she earned a M.A. in social economics in 1910.

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Selects: Frances Perkins: Influential and Unknown

So while she was in Philly, she went to the Wharton School of Finance and Commerce at the University of Pennsylvania because that's super easy and light learning. And then after that, She went to Columbia where she earned a M.A. in social economics in 1910.

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Selects: Frances Perkins: Influential and Unknown

That's right. And after Columbia, after she got that master's, for two years she served as executive secretary of the Consumers League of New York. And this is where she really โ€“ felt her life calling to improve wages, improve working conditions, because this was 1910 through 1912, and things weren't great in factories at the time.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: Frances Perkins: Influential and Unknown

That's right. And after Columbia, after she got that master's, for two years she served as executive secretary of the Consumers League of New York. And this is where she really โ€“ felt her life calling to improve wages, improve working conditions, because this was 1910 through 1912, and things weren't great in factories at the time.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: Frances Perkins: Influential and Unknown

That's right. And after Columbia, after she got that master's, for two years she served as executive secretary of the Consumers League of New York. And this is where she really โ€“ felt her life calling to improve wages, improve working conditions, because this was 1910 through 1912, and things weren't great in factories at the time.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: Frances Perkins: Influential and Unknown

We could do a podcast on โ€“ I don't know what the focus would be necessarily โ€“ Because we've done labor unions, butโ€” Just labor conditions would be eye-opening.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: Frances Perkins: Influential and Unknown

We could do a podcast on โ€“ I don't know what the focus would be necessarily โ€“ Because we've done labor unions, butโ€” Just labor conditions would be eye-opening.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: Frances Perkins: Influential and Unknown

We could do a podcast on โ€“ I don't know what the focus would be necessarily โ€“ Because we've done labor unions, butโ€” Just labor conditions would be eye-opening.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: Frances Perkins: Influential and Unknown

Yeah.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: Frances Perkins: Influential and Unknown

Yeah.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: Frances Perkins: Influential and Unknown

Yeah.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: Frances Perkins: Influential and Unknown

Yeah, she wouldn't stand around and wait for the statue to be built in her honor.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: Frances Perkins: Influential and Unknown

Yeah, she wouldn't stand around and wait for the statue to be built in her honor.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: Frances Perkins: Influential and Unknown

Yeah, she wouldn't stand around and wait for the statue to be built in her honor.