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...families. Mrs. Roosevelt, who turned over to her daughter when she married the account books she kept as a bride, has always been a shrewd Hooverizer. She believes in such sustaining but economical standbys as baked beans, meat loaf, prune pudding and oatmeal. Last spring she entertained Mrs. Vincent Astor and some other ladies with a White House luncheon of which the main course was a soup made of spinach, dandelion greens and bacon grease-a dish reputedly in great favor with Andrew Jackson. She asked her guests afterwards if they did not think such a meal sufficient for midday...
Ailing Madeleine Force Astor Dick, second wife of the late John Jacob Astor, arrived in Manhattan from Bermuda. She refused to discuss her engagement to Italian Enzo Fiermonte, onetime boxing instructor to her sons, who fortnight ago accused Vincent Astor, Mrs. Dick's stepson and President Roosevelt's good friend, of using "influence" to keep him out of Bermuda and the U. S. Indignant Edith Searle, Mrs. Dick's English secretary, told newshawks: "What a hungry mob of vultures you are! What dirty dogs! What torturers and persecutors!" Still suffering from a broken arm incurred two months...
...upon the newsstands at 10? the copy came Today, the weekly that Professor Raymond Moley left President Roosevelt's side to edit, with Vincent Astor's money behind him and Journalist V. V. McNitt's experience behind them both. "Chiselers In Action" shouted a red headband and in the cover cartoon a rotund Andrew Mellon wearing J. P. Morgan's watch-chain chopped a hole in the side of the dory S. S. Recovery, apparently preferring the Rugged Individualism life preserver around his neck to the NRA sail bellying nobly from the mast...
That was virtually all it talked about. Publisher Astor admitted, "It is indeed a fact that we shall support to the utmost limit of our strength the ideals so admirably embodied in the Roosevelt Administration." But, he explained, " 'Liberal' is a word of many definitions. We intend it in the sense that we shall preserve our freedom from the call or dictates of any class, whether economic, social or religious...
Marvelous to behold in an Astor-financed publication was a cartoon by Art Young, of all oldtime anti-Capitalists one of the most irreconcilable. He showed Individualism, with crutch and running nose, penitently ringing the Government's doorbell in a snowstorm...