Word: roosevelts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...telephone rang in Eleanor Roosevelt's home in Hyde Park. It was Cardinal Spellman on the line. Two weeks before, angry at Mrs. Roosevelt's opposition to federal aid to parochial schools, he had accused her of "discrimination unworthy of an American mother," and announced flatly that no matter what Mrs. Roosevelt had further to say, "I shall not again publicly acknowledge...
Careful Reading. "If Mrs. Roosevelt's discussion were really anti-Catholic," Dr. Behnken reasoned, "it would be anti-Lutheran, too. Lutherans have as much enthusiasm for protecting the best interests of their church, their schools and their children as the Roman Catholics have. Careful reading of Mrs. Roosevelt's statements in her discussion of federal aid to schools convinces us that they were not hostile to religion or to any individual church...
...Manhattan, Episcopal Bishop Charles K. Gilbert defended Mrs. Roosevelt on more personal grounds, criticizing Cardinal Spellman's attack as "bitter and unjust," and adding: "I desire to associate myself with Mrs. Roosevelt in the sentiments she has expressed, which will be shared, I am confident, by multitudes of loyal and fair-minded citizens...
Spiritual v. Temporal. Following the first reply in her newspaper column, Eleanor Roosevelt made public an answering letter to the cardinal...
Divorced. By Anna Roosevelt Boettiger, 43, F.D.R.'s only daughter and onetime newspaperwoman turned magazine editor, who now gives a daily radio commentary with her mother: second husband John Boettiger, 49, erstwhile Hearstling; after 14 years of marriage, one child; in Phoenix, Ariz...