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Secretary Ickes' youngest son, Robert, a freshman at Lake Forest College, pronounces his name as "Ick-ees." And people who know well-known Mrs. Anna Wilmarth Ickes say that she says...
...Sara Delano Roosevelt, the President's mother, returned to Hyde Park. Anna Roosevelt Dall. his daughter, went back to Manhattan to prepare her first commercial broadcast for Best & Co., Fifth Avenue women's and children's store. Son-in-law Curtis Dall applied for membership on the Chicago Board of Trade. Groton School again saw Sons Franklin and John with many a tall tale to tell of the Inaugural. Son Elliott chucked his New York advertising job because too many clients counted on his "Washington pull." At his first press conference the President kissed Elliott good...
Ignoring precedent, a spectator in the gallery when the House convened was Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt, bareheaded, knitting a sweater. When members spotted the First Lady, they rose and clapped. Mrs. Roosevelt responded by standing, nodding, smiling pleasantly, and like Mme Defarge in the French Revolution resuming her knitting. With her in the Presidential box were her son James, Mrs. Henry Morgenthau Jr.. Mrs. Mary Howe Baker, daughter of Roosevelt Secretary-Crony Louis McHenry Howe, and Miss Nancy Cook, Mrs. Roosevelt's partner in the Val Kill furniture factory...
...from the White House. For the 20-minute service in the plain white chapel he had gathered about him his family, his Cabinet, a few close friends. At the altar in cassock & surplice stood his old schoolmaster, Groton's Dr. Endicott ("Peabo") Peabody who had married him to Anna Eleanor Roosevelt. From his heart, from the hearts of his little band of worshippers, from the heart of a stricken nation rose a wordless appeal for divine strength to right great ills. . . . The President-elect stood up in his pew, squared back his shoulders. As he walked...
...short, paunchy man with thin grey hair and a mouth that twists up into strange shapes. Behind his gruff manner lies dry humor. He likes to call himself a "lone wolf" in politics. Few regular politicians of either party can guess which way Lone Wolf Ickes will jump next. Anna Wilmarth Thompson Ickes, his wife, whose inheritance is sufficient to leave them both free for politics, is now serving her third term as a regular Republican in the Illinois Legislature. The Insull debacle has been the latest and largest Ickes target...