Word: roosevelts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Spellman-Roosevelt controversy [TIME, Aug. 1]: as a Catholic, and as an American, I am in full accordance with the views of the cardinal. There are many Catholics, however, who feel that he was unduly harsh...
...written another statement, he told Mrs. Roosevelt, and he would like her to read it before it was released. "In the midst of the great confusion and the many regrettable misunderstandings and misinterpretations," he wanted to make the Roman Catholic position clear. This time the sting and heat of his early manner was gone...
...Eleanor Roosevelt found that "a clarifying and fair statement." In an accompanying statement of her own, which the Cardinal's office in Manhattan also released, she said she found it reassuring to be told that the Cardinal was asking only for "auxiliary services," a position he had not made clear in his earlier, broadside attacks on the Barden Bill. "I again wish to reiterate," she concluded, "that I have no anti-Roman Catholic bias. I am firm in my belief that there shall be no pressure brought to bear by any church against the proper operations of the government...
...Hopper, onetime mayor of Neptune City, N.J., "and their descendants down through the ages to come" received the following bequest last week when his will was read: ". . . the knowledge that I, their father and grandfather, had no share, not even once, in the installation or perpetuation of the Roosevelt (F.D.) dynasty . . ." Hopper's will added firmly: "With this knowledge they may always hold up their heads in pride...
Born. To Anna Eleanor Boettiger Seagraves, 22, who, as "Sistie" Dall, romped on the White House lawn in the '303 with Grandfather Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Van H. Seagraves, 26, economist for the Department of the Interior: their first child (and first great-grandchild for Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt), a son; in Portland, Ore. Name: Nicholas Delano. Weight...