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...benefit of destitute mining families in West Virginia and in behalf of Selby Shoe Co. (Styl-Eez, Tru-Poise and Arch-Preserver), last week at Syracuse Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt delivered the first of ten weekly broadcasts at $4,000 per broadcast. Subject: "A Typical Day in the White House." Facts now known about the busy First Lady's matutinal activities...
...White House birthday party began with a clam cocktail, ended with a modest fruit cake with 21 candles. "In our family," grinned Mrs. Roosevelt, "they never go beyond 21." With only a few of the family present-Elliott and his second wife and Anna Roosevelt Boettiger- President Franklin D. Roosevelt thus unostentatiously observed the end of his 53rd year of life. But out in the night over every horizon, wherever the U. S. flag flew, 4,000,000 of the President's fellow-citizens were marking his birthday with a huge celebration. Communities staged over 7,000 Birthday Balls...
...Sept. 29, 1933 the U. S. Government bought for $46,000 a 1,100-acre farm just outside scraggly little Reedsville in the gentle hills of northwest West Virginia. Thus was launched a prime New Deal scheme, sprung largely from the mind and heart of long-legged, dynamic Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt, to give homes and garden-factory livelihoods to stranded U. S. families. Since that time the Government has made a start on 61 other Subsistence Homestead projects, but the one at Reedsville remains the most significant...
...White House not long ago Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt received a strange and unfamiliar guest. Her name was Antonia Brico. She had a determined manner and dark blazing eyes. Her purpose was to interest the President's wife in a woman's symphony orchestra. Mrs. Roosevelt was so impressed that last week four Brico concerts were announced, the first to be given in Manhattan...
...morning, in the library of the Roosevelt house on East 65th Street gave her daughter in marriage to John Boettiger. A clerk from the Marriage License Bureau had brought a license to the house shortly after 8 a. m. There it was filled out by John Boettiger, 34, and Anna Roosevelt Dall, 28. Justice Frederic Kernochan, friend and fishing companion of the President, performed the ceremony. It was hardly over when the telephone rang and Father Roosevelt gave his congratulations to bride & groom. Fifteen minutes later the President's daughter was speeding away, her heart aflutter, in John Boettiger...