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Edwards, now in her eighties, deserves a good deal of credit for the increasing involvement of women in politics and government. With the notable exception of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's secretary of labor, Frances Perkins, and a few others, participation by women did not really begin until over 30 years after they received the right to vote...
...Author Dunne, whose credits include Vegas: A Memoir of a Dark Season, The Studio, Delano and film scripts written with his wife, Novelist Joan Didion, Lois Fazenda is the hapless fly that jiggles a grotesque web of relationships. As Spellacy discovers, the path of the victim's life crisscrossed his own world of Irish-American Los Angeles just after World War II. It is a lively place where an archbishop plays weekly croquet with Samuel Goldwyn, a hard-luck punk goes to the gas chamber for kidnaping a girl on V-J day, and a leading Catholic contractor short...
...AMERICAN PRESIDENT ever faced as awesome a task as Franklin Delano Roosevelt '04 did during his 13 years in office. He entered the White House with the country writhing in the throes of a devastating economic depression and left it with the world emerging from global warfare of unprecedented scale. Although historical critics may reproach him for some of his methods and motives, few find fault with the quality of his leadership during those difficult years. Like other great presidents, Roosevelt rose to the challenge of overwhelming events and refused to be overwhelmed by them. The play FDR chronicles those...
...week we heard how Fred Ross Sr., himself an organizer since the late 30's found Cesar Chavez and brought him into the Community Service Organization. Cesar Chavez eventually became president of that organization, but he gave it up in 1962 and went back out to the fields, to Delano, to organize farmworkers. When he began he could not even mention the word "union", because farmworkers' experiences had been so bad with unions in the past; the first thing he was able to organize was a "death fund". When someone died, there was usually not enough money in the family...
...each went in groups to one of five "Field Offices". Julie Mondaca "80 and myself were among those who went to the town of Lamont. Eileen Hagerty, a graduate student in English here, was sent to San Ysidro, on the Mexican border across from Tijuana. Others went to Salinas, Delano, and Hemmet. We were sent to do whatever was needed in the particular field office at the time...