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...Home Journal. In the first of two excerpts from his forthcoming book, An Untold Story: The Roosevelts of Hyde Park, Elliott writes that "Mother had performed her duty in marriage-five living children were testimony to that. She wanted no more, but her bland ignorance of how to ward off pregnancy left her no choice except abstinence." So, he contends, his mother had no sex with F.D.R. after 1916. Lash's book had recounted F.D.R.'s long-running affair with Eleanor's special secretary Lucy Page Mercer. Elliott Roosevelt now claims that his father had a hitherto...
...total of $11 million being spent on the two buildings comes exclusively from private donations. The $3 million paying for the new freshman dorm came from an anonymous donor, who authoritative sources have identified as Ward M. Canaday '07, a Toledo, Ohio, automobile and financial magnate...
Other such dramas have occurred recently, including the 1970 murder of the West German ambassador, Count Karl von Spreti, by Guatemalan guerrillas. Over the past five years, eight U.S. diplomats and embassy officials have been involved in kidnaping incidents. In January, Ambassador to Haiti Clinton Knox and Consul Ward Christensen were seized at gunpoint and released only after the Haitian government paid a ransom of $70,000 and freed twelve political prisoners...
Committeeman is the lowest recognized rung in the Republican hierarchy, and Harris was given a ward with only five workers and told to administer party activities. Quickly, he built an efficient organization with 100 workers...
...same philosophy in politics. If you want to knock someone off, you do it quickly, before he has time to do favors to people, before obligations to him build up. By now, I've done something of significance for every ward leader in the township. It would be pretty hard to knock...