Word: shoumatoff
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who will be commemorated with a Roosevelt dime and with Roosevelt stamps in 1?, 2?, 3?, 5? denominations, was honored by the anti-Roosevelt New York Daily News, which ran, in full color, Elizabeth Shoumatoff's unfinished portrait (see cut) on which she was working shortly before the President died...
...Elizabeth Shoumatoff, a portrait painter, came in. She had once done a portrait of Franklin Roosevelt and now was anxious to do another. She had driven down from her Long Island home several days before and had been making sketches. Hassett gingerly collected the papers, letting the President's signatures...
...President laughed. Mrs. Shoumatoff remembered afterwards...