Florence Hague Becker

[3][4] During her time leading the National Defense through Patriotic Education Committee, she was recruited by Congressman John W. McCormack to compile a special report on alleged communist propaganda being distributed to young Americans by various groups.

[3] As president general, she continued to speak out against communism and societal challenges that she believed pushed American citizens to support the Socialist movement.

[3] In 1936, when addressing the Daughters of the American Revolution at their 45th Continental Congress in Washington, D.C., she discussed the need for local governments to cure societal problems including "starvation wages, unequal opportunity, uncertainty of justice, neglect of youth, lynchings, and malfeasance in office.

[3] She developed programs that focused on children's educational and nutritional needs, including "Becker Boys and Girls", which provided students with clothes, food, and transportation to and from school.

[3] Becker was received by Pope Pius XI in the Vatican City and was presented to King George VI and Queen Mary at the Buckingham Palace in London.

[3] Florence H. Becker Recreation Hall in Marshall County, Alabama, built in 1937 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2003, was named in her honor.

Becker places a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery in 1938