Word: eleanor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Georgianne Davis '51, and Eleanor Gossard '51, have been elected presidents of Moors and Whitman Halls respectively. Social chairman for Moors will be Helen Clark '51; Barbara Gleason '51, will head Whitman activities...
Speaking at Indiana University in Bloomington, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt admitted that she'd like to have a couple of Hoosier hogs for her Hyde Park, N.Y. farm if she could get them for $100 each. Farmer L. L. Stewart of Kirklin, Ind. sent her two 300-lb. black & white Hampshire gilts, for which he ordinarily gets $200 each. Said Farmer Stewart philosophically: "She set her price...
...syndicated (250 newspapers) column, Westbrook Pegler last week set out to prove that Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt was descended from a thief and traitor, succeeded only in proving that Pegler had been careless with the facts...
Wrote Pegler: "The Empress Eleanor recently made a sentimental journey to the Deep South, and [it] prompted her to prattle discreetly about her fine old aristocratic Southern background. 'My grandmother was a Bulloch from Georgia,' she wrote . . . Nowhere [did she name] that fine old Southern aristocrat who was the father of the Bulloch belle who married the first T.R. . . . The reason . . . might be that his name was Rufus Bulloch, sometimes spelled Bullock, one of the foulest rascals of a day when rascality was truly in flower; a thief, embezzler, grafter, a veritable Quisling, and ... a scalawag...
Caught up, Pegler retracted his error with a sleight-of-hand pass designed to be quicker than readers' eyes. ("Only recently [I] caught myself in the mistaken belief that Rufus Bullock . . . was the great-grandfather of the Empress Eleanor.") In doing so, he pulled another mudball out of his hat. Demanded Pegler, with the air of a man getting to the heart of the matter: "But who, then, was Rufus the rogue? What...