Word: eleanore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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National President Lou Henry Hoover ("Buffalo") didn't show up, but Honorary President Eleanor Roosevelt popped into camp one day, found several girls picking goodies from their "nibble box." Slamming the lid shut, the girls leaped up and saluted. Before a pageant called "Hands Across the World," Mrs. Roosevelt made a speech affirming her interest in world peace: "Peace abroad depends on peace at home and kindly feeling for one another. . . . Learn to laugh. . . . We owe it to the world to preserve our sense of humor. 'All dictators,'" she quoted Biographer Emil Ludwig, " 'are gloomy...
...real-estate practice, the onetime (1907-15) independent Republican floor leader in the Pennsylvania Legislature. His neighbors in Chestnut Hill know him as just the kind of devoted father who takes naturally to doing homework. More than two decades ago Lawyer Scott began answering questions for his daughters Nor (Eleanor), Winkie (Sylvia) and Net (Henrietta), soon extended his advice and counsel to his nephews, Edward and William McKendree Scott Jr. When they were very small, Lawyer Scott taught them to count the seven buttons on each of their shoes, told them the shoes together had 13 buttons, then waited...
...ELEANOR D. BREED...
Seven years ago this week Eleanor ("Cissy") Patterson put her small and pretty feet under a Hearst desk as editor & publisher of the Washington Herald. Much-traveled Mrs. Patterson had always wanted to run a Washington paper. Much-propertied Mr. Hearst had long wondered what to do about the Herald, a consistent money-loser with a piddling circulation of 60,000. It was a happy solution for both, and the only long faces were those of Joseph Medill Patterson, who did not like the idea of his sister working for his archrival, and Alice Roosevelt Longworth. who was promptly made...
Died. Mrs. Alexander Hamilton Rice, 69, socialite and philanthropist; of a heart attack while shopping; in Paris. Mrs. Rice was Eleanor Elkins of Philadelphia, daughter of Oilman William L. Elkins. She married Philadelphia's George Widener. After he and their son Harry Elkins Widener drowned with the Titanic and she was rescued, she built the $2,000,000 Memorial Widener Library at Harvard. In 1915 she married Dr. Alexander Hamilton Rice, wealthy surgeon-explorer, thereafter accompanied him on his South American explorations. Equally famed were her $1,000,000 rope of pearls, a Christmas present from her first husband...