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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TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3Total
Brown AFlorida A010010
Chicago BChicago A1010020
Cornell AOhio State A10101030
Harvard ANorth Carolina A1010020
Indiana ACornell B1010020
Iowa State AWUSTL B1010020
Johns Hopkins AVanderbilt A010010
McGill APenn State A1010020
Stanford AGeorgia Tech A1010020
Texas AChicago C010010
Toronto AMinnesota A1010020
UC Berkeley AColumbia A010010
UC Berkeley BImperial A010010
WUSTL AMaryland A10101030
Yale ADuke A010010