Word: roosevelt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cold and partly cloudy in Washington last week when President Roosevelt returned from Warm Springs. Rested after his quietest week since the war began, he stepped off the train to be greeted by a sober-visaged Secretary of State Cordell Hull, flanked by Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles, Assistant Secretary of War Louis Johnson. The President's quietest week was over, ended by bombs falling on Helsinki by Russia's invasion of Finland...
Last week was a busy one for Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt. For seven years the First Lady has left citizens bemused by her energy, her speeches, her candor, her clubs, her charities, her children, the range of her interests, the breadth of her sympathy, and the way she got around. She has been less like the traditional First Lady than like the busy mistress of some great estate, with the whole U. S. as the household. Upstairs, downstairs, morning to night, seven days a week, with never a cross word, she has noted spots of dust on the chandelier, the need...
...women attending the Household Employment Symposium at Manhattan's Roosevelt Hotel, she urged that domestic work be put on a professional basis. Most fluttered guest at the lunch was one Mildred Stewart, a maid, who sat between Mrs. Roosevelt and feminist Author Fannie Hurst. Mrs. Roosevelt listened to Miss Stewart's speech: "As trained workers we don't feel we have anything to gain from a union ... we have discussed the advantages of social security but we haven't fallen for the arguments of either C. I. O. or A. F. of L. organizers...
...made a mistake-he should be after Fascists, not Communists. But when the Dies Committee began to talk about U. S. youth, found youth organizations mixed up with evil companions, hinted that youth had been out all night with the Reds, could no longer tell right from Red, Mrs. Roosevelt rushed to youth's defense like an outraged mother hen defending her chick's good name...
Summons. It was five o'clock in the afternoon, and Mrs. Roosevelt was having tea in Manhattan with Frances Williams, 25, administrative secretary of the American Youth Congress, when a telegram arrived. It called for an ex-head of the Youth Congress, who had requested an opportunity to testify before the Dies Committee, to appear at ten the next morning. American Youth Congress has had Mrs. Roosevelt's support from the start, and she has denied that its leaders are Communists...