Word: odum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...White House bulletin board announced that Mrs. Edith Helm, social secretary at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, and Miss Reathal Odum, Mrs. Truman's personal secretary, would meet the ladies of the press. The meeting was not on the second, or family, floor, where Eleanor Roosevelt used to chat with the girls, but in the semi-public Green Room...
Grey, gracious Edith Helm, who was in the White House social secretariat under the second Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, and again under Eleanor Roosevelt, walked in with Miss Odum. Mrs. Helm confessed she was "scared to death." First off, she said that Mrs. Truman would not hold peace time receptions and dinners this winter ("inappropriate at present - these are sad times for many people who have suffered war losses"). Then, running down the First Lady's social list, she announced that Mrs. Truman would attend a tea on Oct. 12 given by the Daughters of the American Revolution...
...rest of the 45-minute session was equally ladyfingerish. Sample : Could Miss Odum tell the press what courses Margaret Truman studies at George Washington University? No, she didn't know. Would Margaret go to teas and lunches with her mother? Maybe, but "we try to leave her as much time as possible for her school work." Does Mike, the Truman's Irish setter, live in the White House as Fala did? No, outside...
...South's liveliest, best faculties, including Archibald Henderson (biographer of George Bernard Shaw), Sociologist Howard Washington Odum (Rain bow Round My Shoulder), Pulitzer Prize Playwright Paul Eliot Green (In Abraham's Bosom), Milton Joseph Rosenau (communicable diseases), Joseph Grégoire de Roulhac Hamilton (biographer of Henry Ford), Rupert Bayless Vance (Human Geography of the South...
...leading U.S. university presses, publishing many pioneer studies in Southern sociology, especially those of Odum and his followers. In 1935 the press brought out Clarence Cason's 90° in the Shade a few days after the Alabamian blew out his brains, fearing the reaction of his University of Alabama colleagues to his acid study of Southern culture...