Word: eleanoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shipbuilders' generosity rose and fell with the tide. One yard gave Cinemactress Greer Garson a $74 silver cigaret box. Another thought the wife of F.D.R.'s Chief of Staff William D. Leahy rated a $2,516.75 jeweled bracelet. Eleanor Roosevelt, for launching a light carrier, was given a tray, a photo album and warstamp corsage, altogether worth $553.50. The Sun Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. at Chester, Pa., honored 252 women most handsomely; $750 was the least it ever spent on any one of them...
...helped make the reluctant decision to strip down was the Daily News's brand-new board chairman: Mrs. Eleanor Medill ("Cissie") Patterson, publisher of the Washington Times-Herald...
...their cut-&-dried convention in Albany, the Democratic bosses brayed that their party holds the sole patent on liberalism. The delegates, most of whom went to Albany in a nervous chill of defeatism, were warmed by the appearance of Eleanor Roosevelt as keynoter, gave her an affectionate ovation, cheered her as she struck another campaign chord: the G.O.P. is the party of "backward conservatives...
...Eleanor Roosevelt, who slept in a tourist cabin last month when a Maine hotel barred Fala, got advance assurance this time from a hotel in Albany, N.Y.: Fala would get the big hello, with special dog biscuit. Before she arrived in the city to keynote the state Democratic Convention -her accident-blackened eyes almost healed, her new teeth installed (see cut)-she gave a vigorous answer to a tired old question. "A long while ago," said she, "I said that I would not run for any office. That holds. I'm one of the few people, apparently, who mean...
...morning last week the News ran its 264th Inviting the Undertaker. The cartoon combined two pet Patterson themes: safety, and hatred of the Roosevelts (it showed a tombstone, though no one had been seriously hurt when Eleanor Roosevelt dozed at the wheel and smashed into two cars-TIME...