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...President of "reckless and extravagant" spending, and of thinking "that we ought to center control of everything in Washington as rapidly as possible." Roosevelt's running mate, Congressman John Nance Garner of Texas, 63, even claimed that Hoover was "leading the country down the path of socialism." Eleanor Roosevelt best summed up her husband's uncertain command of the future when she wrote at the time of his Inauguration: "One has a tremendous feeling of going it blindly, because we're in a tremendous stream, and none of us knows where we're going to land...
...Eleanor C. Marshall, assistant to the director of the Parents Association, said yesterday that the association has received many complaints during the past five years from parents who ordered packages that were either not delivered or incomplete. The association received a letter this week from a parent who claimed the company did not deliver one of the two kits ordered, Marshall added...
Jean Stapleton met Eleanor Roosevelt only once, in 1953, when the former First Lady paid a backstage visit to the Chicago cast of Come Back, Little Sheba. "Everyone was so awed that she had to make all the small talk," recalls TV's Edith Bunker. "And that smile. I could never forget it." Evidently, she not only remembered it but was able to reproduce it for a two-hour CBS special on Eleanor's first years as a U.N. delegate (1945-46). In fact, Londoners were stunned when they saw the actress's commanding figure step...
...subjects of the Vaillants' study have been surveyed periodically since 1940, when Harvard law professor Sheldon Glueck and his wife, Eleanor, studied 456 working-class males between the ages 11 and 16 to determine the causes of juvenile delinquency...
Women and UHS at Harvard--an Informal discussion with Dr. Eleanor Shore, Nancy Pasco, RN and Jan Bencit, RN; Ellot...