Word: pontes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Second daughter of Boston's famed Brain Surgeon Harvey Gushing, Betsey quickly became Franklin Roosevelt's favorite daughter-in-law. Not so rich as Franklin Jr.'s bride, Ethel du Pont, nor so young as John's fiancee Anne Clark, nor so athletic as Elliott's second wife, Ruth Googins, Betsey Roosevelt, nevertheless, combines virtues of all three. The serenity of the James Roosevelts' home life is pleasing to Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, who have had more than their share of domestic troubles with their progeny. Betsey calls her husband "Rosie...
...release more than a billion dollars for new construction and repair work, President Roosevelt made certain overtures for peace between the Administration and the (1 Du Pont Products Co., 2 automobile manufacturers, 3 public utilities, 4 steel industry, 5 railroads...
...poorly organized, overloaded with names and figures, America's 60 Families is good muckraking. Lundberg's collection of "conspicuous wastes" would have warmed the heart of the late Thorstein Veblen (Theory of the Leisure Class). He managed, for instance, to "isolate 723 bathrooms in the various Du Pont establishments, at which point, with much ground remaining to be covered, the quest was regretfully terminated...
Last week what Mr. Lundberg had to say over the air in his own defense was very simple. On the question of libel, a sore subject since the Du Pont Co. has sued him for $150,000, Mr. Lundberg said: "General Johnson, so far as I know, is not an authority on libel." As for the charge of Communist propaganda, Author Lundberg declared: "I am not now, nor was I ever, a member of the Communist Party or of any of its affiliated or oppositionist groups. I am not now, and never have been directly or indirectly connected with...
Married-Pauline Louise du Pont, 19, daughter of General Motors Director Henry Francis du Pont, second cousin of Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr.; to Alfred C. Harrison III, 27, Manhattan lawyer; in Christiana Hundred...