Word: eleanore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Grandfather Franklin Roosevelt last week came reports from Grandmother Eleanor Roosevelt that Grandson No. 5, John Roosevelt Boettiger, is "the most friendly, happy baby I have seen in a long while." Grandmother marveled at John's strength, made with him the most widely printed U. S. picture of the week...
...Another Eleanor Roosevelt story came via Walter Winchell, who reported that William Allen White had thus inscribed a gift copy of Mrs. Roosevelt's autobiography (This Is My Story), "This is a swell story of the wisest, kindest, dearest, smartest First Lady I have ever known, and my candidate for Franklin's third term...
Peace is mainly something to argue about at America's Town Meeting of the Air. For the last four years this program, Radio's No. 1 public forum, has provided weekly October-to-May battles on all manner of current topics, with headliners (Ickes, Eleanor Roosevelt, Earl Browder, Wendell Willkie, etc.) in the main bouts, and audiences winding up each week's card with a free...
Even without this revealing hint of what the Roosevelts talk about at table, last week's conference would have been newsworthy. It brought out 1) that Eleanor Roosevelt intends to be inveigled into no wasp-waist corsets this fall; 2) that the delicate White House problem of arranging diplomatic functions this season has been given over to the State Department. The President last week, for reasons of policy (see p. 11), kept an extremely circumspect silence, and Eleanor Roosevelt had to make news enough for two. She did it by expanding, under polite questioning, on her skins-and-pockets...
Although she used fighting words last week, Eleanor Roosevelt used to be considered a pacifist. Last February, during the Isolationist storm over Franklin Roosevelt's sanction of warplane sales to France, she began to edge out of her corner. "Germany," she wrote, "is geared to produce a thousand planes a month; France to produce one hundred planes a month. . . . Do our sympathies lie with the other democracies, or do they lie with the totalitarian states...