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...winter of 1932-33 newshawks covering the President-elect first noted the formal relations between his daughter Anna and her husband, big, bald-browed Curtis Bean Dall. At the inauguration, Son-in-Law Dall put in a polite appearance, later visited the White House for a birthday party. Then the wiseacres of the Press had a surprise: not Daughter Anna but 22-year-old Son Elliott turned up in Nevada asking a divorce. Last week the Press finally got the news it had long expected. Mrs. Dall with Sistie and Buzzie slipped quietly out of the White House where...
Thus eight years after that June day when Dr. Endicott Peabody married Anna Roosevelt to Curtis Dall in the vine-covered Episcopal church at Hyde Park, the President's favorite child set out to undo the marriage. Newshawks quickly noted the shrewd timing of her action: Her divorce, if she gets one, will be granted late next month while her father is away on his trip to Hawaii. Whether, like her brother Elliott, she will remarry shortly thereafter no one yet knew for sure...
Favorite relief project of Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt is the Subsistence Homestead (house & garden) for jobless miners at Reedsville, W.Va. There one day last week she arrived to inspect the first "Federal laboratory" and chat behind closed doors with the 50 families who compose the pioneer Homesteaders. Prevented by last-minute contract technicalities from moving into their new homes, the Homesteaders were nevertheless so grateful for their Promised Land that they appeared possessed of an almost religious fervor...
...Rainey over a question of procedure and tied up business in the House for an hour and a quarter until he was finally and decisively voted down. Several Democrats saluted him with Indian war-whoops, as a subtle reminder that the judge who voided Barnett's marriage to Anna Laura Lowe remarked in his decision: "The conclusion is inescapable on the evidence that Mrs. Lowe and her Attorney McGugin were working in harmony and complete accord with the Indian agent to gain control of a large portion of the bonds...
ALICE JAMES: HER BROTHERS, HER JOURNAL-ed. by Anna Robeson Burr- Duffield &Green ($2.50). Well-edited story of the invalid sister of the (Boston) James boys...