Word: eleanoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dear Eleanor," his friend since childhood, Sumner Welles wrote a long and friendly letter. But it added up to a brush-off: the State Department had reason to believe that Eisler was a Communist; visas could not be given to Communists ; the U.S. consul general at Havana would listen to whatever evidence Eisler could present on his own behalf, but the law would have to be followed...
...Hanns Eisler. What seemed to interest it most was a long list of "certain prominent persons" who, it charged, had tried to help Eisler enter the U.S. The list sparkled with glittery names: Radio Commentator Raymond Swing, onetime Willkieman Russell Davenport, Hollywood Director William Dieterle, Columnist Dorothy Thompson and Eleanor Roosevelt...
...ELEANOR HOWARD Geneva, Switzerland
...Eleanor Roosevelt finally made public reply, in the Ladies' Home Journal, to Jim Farley's public charge, in Collier's, that the Parleys had got a moderately cool shoulder in White House social life. Wrote the ex-First Lady: "Unwittingly in some way I ... seem to have hurt both Mr. and Mrs. Farley. For that I am genuinely sorry . . . but I feel I never treated them any differently. . . ." Being a member of the Cabinet, observed Mrs. Roosevelt, implied that one was considered "a man of parts." She pursued sweetly: "Mr. Farley failed to understand this. His tremendous...
...Eleanor Roosevelt, 62, had an isolated mountain snuggery to look forward to, if she wanted to accept it. The will of a 71-year-old bachelor Tennessee preacher-a stranger, and a lonely Democrat in moun-tainy, Republican Greene County-left her his two-story farmhouse and most of his 247 acres, provided she raise a modest monument over his grave. But she would have to wait to move in. The preacher's niece, thirtyish, is to have the right to live there during her lifetime...