Word: eleanor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Japanese coal miners tunneling 2,700 feet in the earth looked up in astonishment to see Eleanor Roosevelt on a tour of inspection. She was "surprised to see women working underground...
...Mother Eleanor Mary O'Byrne, president of Manhattanville College of the Sacred Heart
Coming out of Tokyo's Labor Ministry, at the start of a five-week lecture tour in Japan, Eleanor Roosevelt got a rude reception on the street from a band of about 20 Japanese women (reportedly led by the American-born wife of a Japanese). Flaunting Communist banners, the women jeered and shouted, "Go home. We don't want another war." Japanese guards came to the rescue and cleared the way to her automobile...
...welcome their newest member. It was the biggest White House reception since the inauguration, and marked the end of a 15-year rift between the White House and the D.A.R. The spat started when the late F.D.R. once welcomed the delegates as fellow "immigrants." The rift widened when Eleanor Roosevelt resigned in" 1939 after the D.A.R. refused to allow Marian Anderson to sing in their Constitution Hall...
...other Whitman elections, Susanna R. Boocock '55 of New York was elected social chairman, while Eleanor Dearing '55 of Chevy Chase, Maryland and Elsa Leisy '55 of Cleveland were named co-work chairmen...