Word: eleanor
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Others joined in, urging the building of the H-bomb: Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch, Republican Senator John Bricker, Eleanor Roosevelt, Senator Tom Connally...
Nobody in Congress raised his voice in rebuttal: to defend Acheson was to defend Alger Hiss. Even Harry Truman curtly refused comment. In the silence, the chatty, tea-table voice of Eleanor Roosevelt sounded. Mrs. Roosevelt, who obviously had not been paying much attention, was "very troubled" by the Hiss case: "It seems rather horrible to condemn someone on the word of someone else who admits to guilt," she said. She was either unaware of, or determined to ignore, the corroborating evidence introduced by the Government to prove the charges of its chief witness, Whittaker Chambers, onetime Communist courier...
Billy Rose and wife Eleanor Holm got home from a Broadway opening to find that their Manhattan town house had been robbed of more than $25,000 worth of jewelry by three holdup men. According to Rose, the robbers missed $250,000 worth of trinkets that Eleanor had worn to the play. Cracked Billy: "I'm glad Baby had her war paint on tonight." The Ago Khan got some $340,000 worth of jewelry back. Stolen from him last August it was returned mysteriously in Marseille in a package dropped in front of a police station. Seven...
Author Meets the Critics (Thurs. 9:30 p.m., ABC-TV). This I Remember defended by Author Eleanor Roosevelt...
...Eleanor Roosevelt will give an address entitled "The World Struggle for Human Rights" on Wednesday, February 8 at 4 p.m. in Sanders Theatre. The talk sponsored by the United Nations Council of Harvard, will be open to the public...