Word: besse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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First Steps. There was plenty to do, right away, and methodical Harry Truman went at it. He promptly: 1) summoned the Cabinet, and asked all its members to stay in office; 2) ordered no interruption in plans for the San Francisco conference. He also called Bess Wallace Truman, his wife...
...Bess Truman, whom Harry had met in Sunday School at Independence, Mo. when he was seven and she six, and had married 28 years later, was at the Trumans' modest five-room apartment at 4701 Connecticut Avenue. When she heard what her husband had to tell her, she wept. A few minutes later, with the Trumans' daughter (and only child), 21-year-old Mary Margaret, she left by a rear door. A White House car was waiting...
Present were all the bigwigs of Washington, some little wigs, and a host of loyal Democrats from all over. They all filed by to shake the hands of Eleanor Roosevelt and Bess Truman. (The President received in the Red Room, for close friends.) The characters of the day turned out to be a farmer from Morris, Minn., and his wife. Anton Ettesvold had won a competition staged by a Yankton (S. Dak.) radio station as "the typical Midwest farmer." His reward was a trip to Washington, where he was invited to the inauguration by Mrs. Roosevelt...
Lunch lasted well into the afternoon, and was shortly followed by tea for "all those who didn't come to lunch." In the interval, Eleanor Roosevelt was discovered in a corner, teaching Bess Truman how to make entertaining less tiring by relaxing the knees. "I've learned from long experience," said Eleanor Roosevelt...
...farm boy, he still rises early; but his years in the city have made him hate to go to bed at night. His reading habits run to volumes on the Civil War, of which he has devoured thousands. His specialty: the Battle of Chancellorsville. He married his boyhood sweetheart, Bess Wallace, whom he met in Sunday School when he was seven and she six. He is still a member of the First Baptist Church of Grandview. Mo., although he says he has never been "a very active churchgoer." The Christian Century called him "a religious man." For a while...