Word: daughter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Harry Hopkins' small daughter Diana grows up, she ought to cherish a picture of herself which was taken last week, wedged into the President's gallery in the House of Representatives with the wife, uncle (Frederic Adrian Delano) and mother of the man who made her father famous. There Diana, who is six, listened to that man deliver his sixth annual address to Congress on the State of the Union. Diana's father can tell her that, up to a point, it was Franklin Roosevelt's most smashingly successful message since his "The only thing...
Father Hopkins could also tell his daughter that this was the first message to Congress during the delivery of which Roosevelt II received a thoroughgoing razz from the Opposition...
...were surprised to see a small brown-haired girl, handsome as a magazine cover, pert in plaid jacket, black skirt and yellow hair-ribbon, chasing down the aisles of the House, talking to distinguished members, having her picture taken, carrying messages. She was Gene Cox, 13, eye-apple youngest daughter of Georgia's cantankerous Representative Edward Eugene ("Goober") Cox. Over the protests of Doorkeeper Joe Sinnott, who feared it would "get into the newspapers" and start a rush by other doting parents to have the same done for their girls, Father Cox had Gene sworn in as his House...
Typical Abdul-Wahab screen plot: a poor fellah (peasant), desperately in love with a rich man's daughter, realizes the futility of his situation, sings a few tragic songs, commits suicide...
...notable successes were: 1) being sued by a villager whom she described too candidly; 2) winning a single silver spoon in an advertising contest (first prize: a whole chest of silver); 3) winning $14 for a contest article entitled How I Met the Problems of Adolescence in my Daughter, which she wrote shortly before her first child was born. Her first published novel, Fireweed, won the University of Michigan's Avery Hopwood Prize...