Word: eleanoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile, Business Researcher Eleanor Stoddard was busy in New York interviewing people and assembling material. The result of nearly three weeks' work was her 50-page report. It covered the year's economy, segment by segment, with a chronology of events, earnings figures, significant developments in industry, etc. Researcher Stoddard also passed along a foot-high stack of pertinent reports on the year's business, selected from the 100-odd morgue folders she had gone through...
...Eleanor Roosevelt got another honorary degree (LL. D.), this time from Queens University in Kingston, Ontario...
Born. To James Roosevelt, 40, and Romelle Schneider Roosevelt, 32, his second wife: their first daughter, third child (he also has a son and daughter by first wife Betsey Gushing, now Mrs. John Hay Whitney); in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Anna Eleanor (after her paternal grandmother). Weight...
Some sounded more disappointed than angered. Eleanor Roosevelt's first reaction was a distressed "Oh dear, oh dear." Wrote crusading Editor Ralph McGill in the Atlanta Constitution: "He has a real genius for self-delusion [which] will make of him an ignominious spectacle long before November and the election. And I'm sorry because I like...
...Geneva, at the Commission on Human Rights, Eleanor Roosevelt diagnosed the basic ailment. Americans, she thought, "are not completely sure of our ability to make democracy work...