Word: eleanor
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
last Saturday's seminar. "Eleanor Roosevelt: the Politics of Conscience," looked closely at the former First Lady's contributions to politics and also examined two of the main issues confronting women in government today the feminization of poverty and international human rights...
...explained that her deep interest in Eleanor Roosevelt inspired her to plan the event, to celebrate the centennial of Roosevelt's birth. "I was in Washington when the centennial of FDR's birthday was celebrated, and noticed that almost every time Eleanor Roosevelt came up it was almost in passing, when she was actually much more significant than that," Stier added...
...background of many of these students has been a surprise to the college. Ada Administrator Eleanor Rothman recalls that when the program was first proposed, the faculty expected to receive genteel inquiries from well-to-do women yearning to complete their degrees. Instead, applications poured in from clerks, secretaries, farmers, nurses and switchboard operators. One woman, who worked as an apple picker, wrote in her application: "I am ready to go to school because I need to." Another Ada, Barbara Rosenheck, 46, the widowed mother of four, now spending part of the week in a Smith dormitory, feels...
...Declared Eleanor Smeal of Pittsburgh, housewife and president of the 65,000-member National Organization for Women: "Houston was a rite of passage." Ruth Clusen of Green Bay, Wis president of the League of Women Voters, struck the same theme: "Even for women who are outside organizational life, who don't see themselves as part of the women's movement, something has happened in their lives as a result of this meeting whether they realize...
...White House. For the 20-minute service in the plain white chapel he had gathered about him his family, his Cabinet, a few close friends. At the altar in cassock & surplice stood his old schoolmaster, Groton's Dr. Endicott ("Peabo") Peabody who had married him to Anna Eleanor Roosevelt. From his heart, from the hearts of his little band of worshippers, from the heart of a stricken nation rose a wordless appeal for divine strength to right great ills. . . . The President-elect stood up in his pew, squared back his shoulders. As he walked out of St. John...