Word: mamas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Treasure of Sierra Madre, MGM's The Search and J. Arthur Rank's The Red Shoes. Two lists included Walter Wanger's Joan oj Arc, Robert Flaherty's documentary Louisiana Story, 20th Century-Fox's little comedy, Sitting Pretty, RKO's I Remember Mama and Samuel Goldwyn's The Bishop's Wife. Films that placed on one list: Call Northside 777, Apartment for Peggy, The Naked City, State of the Union, A Foreign Affair, The Pearl, Italy's Paisan and Denmark's Day of Wrath...
...year later that Eleanor had occasion to write Sara Roosevelt, who was arriving home from Europe: "Dearest Mama, Franklin has been quite ill and so can't go down to meet you on Tuesday." Later Mama learned that Franklin had been struck down by infantile paralysis...
During the slow, hard years that followed, F.D.R. began, among other things, a history of the U.S., but abandoned it after 14 dull pages. He began to make history instead. The last letter in Volume II is one he wrote to Mama from Warm Springs during the 1928 presidential campaign for Alfred E. Smith: "I spoke in Atlanta twice last Wednesday and there is an appalling amount of vile propaganda in circulation ... I have had a difficult time turning down the Governorship [of New York], letters and telegrams by the dozen begging me to save the situation by running...
...Mama had scarcely had time to read the letter before the news was out. The Democrats had nominated her son for governor by acclamation. Mama wrote Franklin: "Eleanor telephoned me before I got my papers that you have to 'run' for the Governorship. Well, I am sorry if you do not feel that you can do it without too much self sacrifice, and yet if you run I do not want you to be defeated...
...Mama did not have to worry about that. He was not defeated then or ever again...