Word: roosevelt
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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...
...Portland, Ore., Mrs. Roosevelt's first great-grandchild, three-week-old Nicholas ("Little Bear") Seagraves put on a below-par performance at an old F.D.R. sport: posing for a horde of photographers. While parents "Sistie" (White House moppet during the early New Deal) and Van Seagraves beamed over his public sendoff, Nicholas snoozed through the flashbulbs...
...individualism refused them. They set up unemployment funds, fought for pension plans, minimum wage scales and sickness benefits. In 1913 they established the first union health center in one shabby room. Says Dubinsky today: "This was the sentiment of the members. They championed the same ideas that later on Roosevelt made them the law of the land. I merely probably expanded...
...Roosevelt should have remained in shocked silence. By stating she supported Al Smith in his every campaign she does not answer the cardinal's questions . . . Had she not supported Governor Smith she would have been a traitor, not only to the Democratic Party, but to her husband as well...
Funds & Fancies. Because it strikes tragically at children, polio has received more publicity (especially after Polio Victim Franklin Roosevelt became President) than many a deadlier ailment.* To loosen purse strings, fund raisers have played on parents' heart strings. They have emphasized the bafflement of medical science in the face of so tricky an enemy as polio. Over the years, parents have become so impressed that they can scarcely think of polio without panic...