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Strangely enough these words had fundamental relation to U. S. foreign policy. For the long-legged lady was Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt and the swatches were materials for dresses, presented by the wool-raisers of Britain and the U. S., which Mrs. Roosevelt and Britain's Queen Elizabeth will wear if they meet as scheduled in the U. S. in June. Mrs. Roosevelt's patient swatch-fingering was an innocent little act cooked up by the U. S. wool-growers' publicists. (Commodore Robert B. Irving of the Queen Mary acted as special courier to take Her Majesty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: ORACLE | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

...Conquest (Republic). This week's addition to the cinema's rapidly growing biography shelf is a lively portrait of General Sam Houston, Governor of Tennessee (1827-29), victor over Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna, and President of the Republic of Texas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Apr. 17, 1939 | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

...heart and the London stage on her mind. The bright candle lights of success beckoned in the 18th century as strongly as today. Her name was not Lamarr but plan Woffington--just "Peg of Old Drury." Wrapped up in a brand new package of old English drama, Anna Neagle scales the heights of theatrical adoration and wins that greatest prize of all--a corner in the heart of immortal David Garrick. It is the old story of home town girl makes good. But it is fresh and appealing, steeped in the lore of England in the days of Vauxhall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

Born. To John Boettiger, 39. publisher of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, and his wife, the former Anna Roosevelt Dall, 32, a son, their first child; in Seattle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 10, 1939 | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

Camp No. 2 and, although he protests that he stands with George Washington against foreign entanglements, is doing all he can to arm the European democracies as well as the U. S.* The scrappiest member of this camp is not the President, however, but the President's wife, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt, who declared three weeks ago: "I am not sure that it is always right to be safe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Who's for War? | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

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