Word: eleanor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Madrid radio decided that there was something sinister about Eleanor Roosevelt (see PRESS). Spluttered Madrid: What about the great influence of the "personal whims of the famous lady? . . . Is it a case of feminine dictatorship? . . . Is she the tool of a mysterious international power that gives orders and looks out for its own interests? . . . Is Mrs. Roosevelt a sort of Stalin in petticoats...
...Manhattan office one day last February, Otis Lee Wiese, 44-year-old editor and publisher of McCall's, got a telephone call from Hyde Park. The caller, whom Wiese has never identified, cried: "Come quick! The lady's feelings are hurt." Wiese quickly decoded "lady" into Anna Eleanor Roosevelt and took the next train north, convinced that somehow the rival Ladies' Home Journal had underestimated the power of a woman...
Editor Wiese did not underestimate her. He well knew that Eleanor Roosevelt was one of the Journal's star contributors. Her 1937 memoirs (This Is My Story) and monthly question & answer page (If You Ask Me) had helped push the Journal to its No. 1 spot in the U.S. women's magazine field (TIME, Oct. 4). He could hardly believe his ears when Mrs. Roosevelt told him that the Journal's co-editors, Bruce and Beatrice Gould, had found fault with her latest volume of memoirs and asked her to let them help rewrite it. Editor Wiese...
...Russell; Psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung, Artist Pablo Picasso, Writers Bernard Shaw, T. S. Eliot, Andre Gide, Jean-Paul Scrtre and William Faulkner; Theologians Jacques Maritain, Karl Barth, Martin Buber, Albert Schweitzer and Reinhold Niebuhr; and, as a "moral symbol of the Western democratic creed, whom the whole world recognizes," Eleanor Roosevelt...
What set McCarran off was a U.N. debate over restoring full diplomatic recognition to Spain. The Soviet bloc wanted the two-year-old ban continued; most of the Latin Americans wanted it lifted, and so did some U.S. delegates. But Delegates Eleanor Roosevelt and John Foster Dulles were for continuing the ban. Result: the split U.S. delegation was told to abstain from voting...