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Frances Perkins, The First Woman In Cabinet, Is Dead; FRANCES PERKINS OF NEW DEAL DIES
Frances Perkins, the first woman Cabinet member, who served for 12 turbulent years as President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Secretary of Labor, died here yesterday at the age of 83.
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