Word: eleanor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ELEANOR C. WATERHOUSE Pasadena, Calif...
...most powerful single force toward Reason during 1948 is ... who but Eleanor Roosevelt...
...Eleanor Roosevelt, who had dismissed the Soviet constitution as merely "of pure propaganda significance," got a lofty consider-the-source retort from Izvestia: "Can a fly eclipse...
Back to Britain, where she has become "a visitor most dear to British hearts," went Eleanor Roosevelt to receive from Oxford an honorary degree of Doctor of Civil Law.* Introduced by the Public Orator as "a pillar of world affairs," Mrs. Roosevelt herself made a memorable target for photographers as she walked with Vice Chancellor Dr. John Lowe in the academic procession, properly garbed in the traditional squash hat and flowing academic gown...
Back in the 1930s when Eleanor Roosevelt first went on the air, her high-pitched, uncertain voice "and the piffling quality of some of her remarks made a field day for mimics. Last week, with the able assistance of her daughter Anna, Mrs. Roosevelt returned to the air with a new program, and a new radio personality. Her first broadcast won raves in the trade-and flustered Washington. Speaking by transcription from Paris, where she is a member of the U.N.'s Social, Humanitarian and Cultural Committee, Commentator Roosevelt let fly with some salvos that were notable for both...