Match Each Description with the Item Below

Match each description with the item below.
-Francis
E. Townsend

A) was commissioner of the Bureau of Indian Affairs and increased the number of Native Americans employed by the bureau
B) was agriculture secretary at the time of the creation of the Agricultural Adjustment Act and commented on the waste it brought
C) served as secretary of labor as the first woman cabinet member in American history and went on to design the Social Security Act
D) was a Roosevelt critic whose assassination before the presidential election of 1936 ended the possibility of giving the Republican candidate a winning margin
E) promoted social justice issues within the White House, became an outspoken activist, and held press conferences
F) was head of the United Mine Workers who was one of the first to capitalize on the pro-Union spirit of the NIRA
G) proposed to pay $200 a month to those over 60 who retired and promised to spend the money
H) devoured books borrowed with a white friend's library card and went on to write powerful novels centered on the quest for social justice
I) was a distinguished journalist who had a close relationship with Eleanor Roosevelt and became her nearly constant traveling companion
J) was Roosevelt's closest aid who headed the Federal Emergency Relief Administration

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