Word: brothers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among the numerous Roosevelts who spend all their time making news, Gracie Hall Roosevelt is usually notable for making no news at all. Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt's younger (46) brother, his most conspicuous appearance in print up to last week had been in his sister's autobiography in which she wrote that she felt a "great responsibility for him." Last week Gracie Hall Roosevelt suddenly found himself paraded across the front pages in the U. S. This was surprising enough but the reason was more so. It was a rumor that he had invited Henry Ford to lunch...
...time in New York-had given the invitation was that the President considered it more tactful to invite Mr. Ford through an emissary than to summon him directly. Having deduced this much-despite rumors that Hall Roosevelt had given the invitation on his own account, thus putting his brother-in-law in the position of being forced to second it-the nation's press spent the rest of the week speculating on what, since he wanted nothing and had also promised to give no advice, Mr. Ford was going to the White House for. As to this, neither...
...colleague of the Generalissimo as correspondents looked blank: "The activities of the Chinese Nazi Party have been concealed from the general public during the few years of its existence. Its Führer is Carson Chang who was educated in Japan and Germany." Führer Chang's brother, Chang Kai-ngau, is the Chinese Communications Minister...
...Island Sound same day Whitfield took flight. The plane's motor sputtered, said he, then died, and he thought it might have dropped into the Sound. By last week's end private searchers had given up. Meantime, while Andrew Whitfield 's father & mother remained in Virginia, Brother John scoffed at hints of suicide, told the press he thought the missing flyer was hiding somewhere within the plane's 150-mile flying radius...
...potential liability (Dizzy Dean won only 13 games and lost 10 last year) into a cash asset? Were they going to concentrate on attack this year with such powerful sluggers as Joe Medwick, Johnny Mize and highly touted Rookie Enos Slaughter? Was Dizzy a has-been like his brother Paul, who was sent back to the minors fortnight ago? And if his arm was bad, why did the Cubs, co-favorites with the Giants to win the National League pennant, want Dizzy Dean...