Word: eleanoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other members: Senators Arthur Vandenberg and Tom Connally, Rep. Sol Bloom of New York, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt. Alternates: Rep. Charles Eaton of New Jersey, Rep. Helen Gahagan Douglas of California, John Foster Dulles of New York City and Adlai Stevenson, Chicago lawyer who served with the U.S. delegation at U.N.'s London sessions...
...would never have tolerated. Says she: "Without the Negroes' exercise of the franchise, neither the white nor the black can be free." Eloquent Mary Bethune has been stumping the country for years against the poll tax, for the anti-lynching bill and the FEPC. Sometimes her good friend Eleanor Roosevelt shares the platform...
This time Austrian-accented Paul Henreid is the overly sensitive, love-tortured medical student. (Henreid's blatantly un-British enunciation is lightly dismissed by a reference in the script to his "Viennese mother.") Eleanor Parker, a pretty, plumpish, 24-year-old ingenue, is physically miscast as the scrawny little slut of a waitress. But under Director Edmund Goulding's shrewd guidance, she does a fine, shoulder-wriggling job in the repellent role that gave Bette Davis a start as the screen's No. 1 hussy...
...Congresswoman Clare Boothe Luce is the greatest nigger-lover in the North- except Old Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. Yep, Old Lady Roosevelt is worse. ... In Washington she forced our Southern girls to use the stools and the toilets of damn syphilitic nigger women...
...hotly disputed question of whether expert delegates to the commissions should be able to speak for themselves instead of their governments, Russia last week was working both sides of the street. Eleanor Roosevelt had held out for experts who could freely give their own views. Russian Delegate Nikolai I. Feonov disagreed, said that only if delegates are "representatives of their governments can useful work be done," otherwise the commissions would be mere "discussion clubs." Russia carried the point; by a vote of11-to-5 Ecosoc decided that members of all council commissions should sit as government representatives...