Word: eleanoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Five weeks after he touched off a nationwide controversy by charging her with "anti-Catholic" bias, New York's Archbishop Francis Cardinal Spellman dropped in at Hyde Park to see Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt for 45 minutes of friendly conversation and a cooling glass of iced...
...telephone rang in Eleanor Roosevelt's home in Hyde Park. It was Cardinal Spellman on the line. Two weeks before, angry at Mrs. Roosevelt's opposition to federal aid to parochial schools, he had accused her of "discrimination unworthy of an American mother," and announced flatly that no matter what Mrs. Roosevelt had further to say, "I shall not again publicly acknowledge...
...Eleanor Roosevelt found that "a clarifying and fair statement." In an accompanying statement of her own, which the Cardinal's office in Manhattan also released, she said she found it reassuring to be told that the Cardinal was asking only for "auxiliary services," a position he had not made clear in his earlier, broadside attacks on the Barden Bill. "I again wish to reiterate," she concluded, "that I have no anti-Roman Catholic bias. I am firm in my belief that there shall be no pressure brought to bear by any church against the proper operations of the government...
...flamboyant Times-Herald, it would mean a return to the distaff rule that the newspaper had known for eleven whirling-dervish, moneymaking years under the late Eleanor Medill ("Cissy") Patterson. But there the resemblance ended: in temperament and talent, Bazy and her distant cousin were as different as sugar and spice...
Born. To Anna Eleanor Boettiger Seagraves, 22, who, as "Sistie" Dall, romped on the White House lawn in the '303 with Grandfather Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Van H. Seagraves, 26, economist for the Department of the Interior: their first child (and first great-grandchild for Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt), a son; in Portland, Ore. Name: Nicholas Delano. Weight...