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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hopkins has been married three times. The first was in 1913 when, as a young Manhattan social worker just out of Grinnell College, he met, ardently wooed and won another young social worker named Ethel Gross. They had four children. One died in infancy. The others, all sons, entered the Army, Navy & Marines when war came. Pfc. Stephen Hopkins of the Marines was killed in action last February on Namu Island. Lieut. David Hopkins of the Navy is in the South Pacific, and Sergeant Robert Hopkins is in Europe...
...second pattern is more certainly the explanation of his rise. The fact that he was a social worker is overrated; by far the most important function of his jobs has always been to bring people together. He did this as head of a city charity, of a large private charity (where he first met the rich and important people who helped him on his way up), and it is one of his principal functions now. It was he whom the President first sent to meet Churchill and Stalin, and he who first suggested the Atlantic Charter meetings where Churchill...
...current popular view of Hopkins is that he is a onetime social worker and youthful dabbler in Socialist ideas who has now turned conservative. Business Week, which knows a conservative when it sees one, recently praised him as "one who began kicking New Dealers in the teeth long before Roosevelt...
...means an AAA for every industry telling each man what he shall produce and what price he shall get for it, if it means direct government control over every businessman and worker, then full employment will be at worst a kind of socialistic totalitarianism, at best a benevolent form of complete state paternalism...
...Duets. "C. D. Gibson" sold his first drawing to Life (for $4) when he was 19. It showed a small dog looking at a big moon, over the caption "The Moon and I." If he had not been a fast, hard worker, he could not have satisfied the quick public demand for his pretty women and his quietly satirical drawings of society life. By the time he was 25, he was the most sought-after black-&-white artist in the U.S. His fattest contract came in 1893, when Collier's agreed to pay $100,000 for 100 drawings...