Word: eleanor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Columnist Pegler got another kind of compliment from Columnist Eleanor Roosevelt. In her question & answer column in the Ladies' Home Journal, she was asked why her "big, strong American sons" didn't horsewhip Westbrook Pegler. Mrs. Roosevelt's reply: "Why should they bother to horsewhip a poor little creature like Westbrook Pegler? They would probably go to jail for attacking someone who was physically older and perhaps unable to defend himself. After all, he is such a little gnat on the horizon...
...Committee on Women in World Affairs last week urged the appointment of Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt to succeed Marshall, if he retires. Asked if she would accept, Mrs. Roosevelt said: "I think that's all too silly to discuss. I hope Secretary of State Marshall will not retire-for the good of the country and the good of the world...
...about Broadway, did a double take. After the first-night performance of Light Up the Sky (TIME, Nov. 29), he had admitted in print that it was "fast" and "funny." But a couple of Moss Hart's cast of caricatures bore a striking resemblance to Billy and wife Eleanor Holm; Billy simmered for a few days, then went back for a second look. This time, he reported with satisfaction, the capacity audience wasn't finding nearly so much to laugh at. "Opening night yaks were being greeted by yawns." Billy's diagnosis: "On opening night, the wise...
...year later that Eleanor had occasion to write Sara Roosevelt, who was arriving home from Europe: "Dearest Mama, Franklin has been quite ill and so can't go down to meet you on Tuesday." Later Mama learned that Franklin had been struck down by infantile paralysis...
Mama had scarcely had time to read the letter before the news was out. The Democrats had nominated her son for governor by acclamation. Mama wrote Franklin: "Eleanor telephoned me before I got my papers that you have to 'run' for the Governorship. Well, I am sorry if you do not feel that you can do it without too much self sacrifice, and yet if you run I do not want you to be defeated...