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Hopkins' job: executive secretary of the War Cabinet (Secretaries of State, War, Navy and Treasury), which will administer the Lend-Lease Act and spend its $7,000,000,000. Actually the frail Iowan will still be only officially what he has long been unofficially: right-hand man to Franklin Roosevelt...
...Ellen had passed her frail childhood, seldom going to school, reading in her grandfather's library practically everything she wanted. In No. 1 she wrote her first verse. (At the age of eight she had already secretly written her first story, A Lonely Daisy in a Garden of Roses.) There she has written most of her 19 novels, at a massive mahogany desk...
...little oval room was hot. The score of frail, wobbly, gilt chairs were jammed close together on the deep scarlet carpet, to the left of the plain, dark wooden desk...
Eagle Bridge, N. Y. (pop. 300) nestles on the hard western slope of Vermont's Green Mountains just where they roll over the New York border. There 13 years ago Farmer Thomas Solomon Moses died, left the care of his 180-acre farm entirely to his widow. For frail Anna Mary Robertson Moses, running the farm was pretty hard work. Soon she found she had to rest her back. To occupy her busy fingers, Anna Moses (80) decided to take up painting...
...Manhattan at a "Funds for France" dinner which she sponsored to feed children in Free France, best-dressed, frail Mrs. Harrison ("Mona") Williams was baited by a reporter who implied that to feed France was to help Germany. Said she tearfully: "I have nothing to hide. Is it a sin to be a Christian?" Said Guest Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr.: "Mona, it's all so silly-everyone knows you are no more of a Nazi than...