Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), 46, 76, 88–90, 93, 269, 279, 357, 466, 477, 497, 565
civil rights movement, 7, 39, 153–61, 176–81, 184–89, 278, 302, 335
Civil Works Administration (CWA), 84–85, 86, 87–88, 137, 154, 162–65, 181
Civil Works Services (CWS), 87
Claney, Howard, 484
Clapp, Elsie Ripley, 150, 204
Clark, Anne Lindsay, 516
Clarke, Jeanne Nienaber, 288
Cías, A. R., 294
Cochran, Jacqueline, 458n, 460
Cochran, Tom, 366
Cockburn, Claude, 544
Coffin, Jo, 273
Coit, Margaret, 319
Coming Victory of Democracy, The (Mann), 548
Committee on Russian-American Relations, 114
communism, 4, 10, 86, 113, 125, 308; Hick’s views on, 162, 183; see also anticommunism; Soviet Union
Communist Party, Spanish, 454
Conant, James, 544
Congress, U.S., 27, 44, 84nn, 104, 156, 157, 188, 212, 220, 226, 228, 259, 305, 388, 431, 440–43, 460, 476, 510–11, 560; anti-immigrant sentiment of, 344; blacks in, 19, 88; New Deal and, 60, 70, 77, 85, 88, 143, 148, 151, 218, 235, 250, 251, 266, 272, 277, 497, 515–16; O’Day’s campaign for, 221–25; women in, 68, 73, 513; women’s network and, 63, 64; see also House of Representatives, U.S.; Senate, U.S.
Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), 266, 381, 424, 426, 428–29, 451, 455, 456, 462, 510, 564, 573
Connor, Eugene “Bull,” 565, 568
Cook, Nancy, 2, 10, 32–33, 42, 93, 106, 166, 190, 191, 200, 219, 221, 295, 301, 466, 551, 552; Arthurdale and, 135, 136–37, 141, 255; election of 1936 and, 344, 373, 388; ER’s rift with, 360–61, 364, 365, 519, 520, 524–25, 527, 530–32, 534–37; ER’s travels with, 106, 107, 111, 120, 121–22, 135, 166, 216, 255, 273, 274; inauguration and, 13, 29; in Warm Springs, 195, 229–30
Coolidge, Calvin, 18, 29, 63
Coolidge, Grace Goodhue, 18
Copeland, Royal, 63, 83
Corcoran, Tom, 376, 394
Cornell University, 54, 168, 253, 361
Costa Rica, 517, 561
Costigan, Edward, 84, 177–78, 245–46, 346, 440
Costigan-Wagner bill, 176–81, 188, 243–47, 256, 279, 346
Couch, Natalie, 221–22
Coughlin, Father Charles E., 240, 376, 387, 559
Council of Young Southerners, 565–66
Countryman’s Year, The (Grayson), 466
Cowles, Anna Roosevelt (Aunt Bye), 20, 329
Cowles, Sheffield, 25
Crim, Howell G., 35–36
Crisis, 158, 226–27, 245, 254–55, 286, 288, 332, 345, 408
Cross, Lillian, 27
Crothers, Rachel, 448
Crowdy, Dame Rachel, 118
Cruger, Dorothy, 469
Cuba, 169, 173
Cudahy, John, 544
Cummings, Homer S., 15, 209, 243
Czechoslovakia, 310–11, 489, 500, 521, 539–42, 543, 548, 570
Dahlman, Jane, see lckes, Jane Dahlman
Daladier, Edouard, 540, 541
Dali, Anna Roosevelt, see Boettiger, Anna Roosevelt Dall
Dall, Curtis Roosevelt, Jr. (Buzzie), 31, 93, 193, 199, 235, 418, 419, 516
Dall, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (Sistie), 31, 93, 193, 199, 235, 418, 419, 516, 553
Dana, Bill, 199, 204, 214, 251, 411, 423, 450–51
Dana, Doris, 214
Dana, Ella, 199, 204, 214, 251, 411, 423, 450
Daniels, Josephus, 550, 555, 570
Danilevsky, Nadia, 133
Davies, Marion, 395
Davis, Alice, 133, 398
Davis, Chester, 378
Davis, John, 255, 568
Davis, John W., 335
Davis, Norman, 101, 106, 107, 111
Dearborn Independent, 320
Declaration of Rights for American Youth, 512
DeFrantz, R. B., 439
Delano, Frederic, 189, 411, 465, 517
Democratic Digest, 372, 437, 449
Democratic National Committee, 39, 368–69, 379, 408
Democratic National conventions: of 1932, 28, 67; of 1936, 345, 361, 366–72
Democratic Party, Democrats, 9, 20, 61, 70, 143–48, 486; anticommunism and, 143–46; patronage in, 67–69; Southern, 165, 167, 170, 180, 226, 305, 335, 345–46, 348, 357, 379–80, 408, 538, 555; Supreme Court plan denounced by, 461–62; Women’s Committee of, 3, 11, 344, 345–16, 366–69, 376; see also specific elections
Denmark, 69, 169, 248n
Dennis, Leila Roosevelt, 553
Denver Democrat, 484
DePriest, Jessie, 19
DePriest, Oscar, 19, 88
Dem, George Henry, 15n
Deutsches Frauenwerk, 123
Dewey, John, 150
Dewey, Thomas, 555
Dewson, Mary Williams (Molly), 3, 11, 62, 83, 86, 87, 191, 193, 253, 257, 258, 273, 405, 432, 463, 464, 569, 575; election of 1936 and, 344, 346, 351, 366–69, 373, 378; ER’s correspondence with, 227–28; female federal appointments and, 15, 67–69
Diana, Princess, 1
Dickerman, Marion, 2, 10, 13, 29, 109, 111, 166, 190, 195, 200, 221, 228, 265, 295, 301, 438, 463–64, 466, 528–30, 551, 552; election of 1936 and, 344; ER’s rift with, 360–61, 364, 365, 524–25, 527–28, 530, 532–37; ER’s vacations with, 106, 107, 216, 273, 274, 280
Dickinson, Roy, 199, 200, 203, 252
Dies, Martin, 357, 499, 522, 560
Dies Committee, 499, 522, 523, 555
“Dilemma of a Pacifist, The” (Thompson), 452
Dilling, Elizabeth, 514
Dillon, Tom, 395
Dirksen, Herbert von, 502
disarmament, 48, 99, 100–101, 331; see also Geneva Disarmament Conference
Dixon, Thomas, 345
Dodd, WUliam E., 103, 104, 242, 303, 309, 314, 331, 409, 410, 470, 501, 521
Dollfuss, Engelbert, 310
Dominican Republic, 169
Doughton, Robert, 249
Douglas, Lewis, 72–73, 92, 219
Dreier, Mary Elizabeth, 29, 61, 77, 112, 322n, 373, 526
DuBois, W.E.B., 293
Ducas, Dorothy, 169, 170
Duke, Doris, 141, 481
Dulles, Allen, 444
Dunn, James Clement, 454
Dunnigan bill, 449
du Pont, Ethel, 397, 414, 441, 457, 476
Durand, Margaret, 39, 350
Durr, Clifford, 509, 564, 567
Durr, Virginia, 4, 475, 509, 510, 564, 565, 566–67
Dyer, Leónidas, 245
Earhart, Amelia, 50, 95, 346n, 473; disappearance of, 458–60
Early, Stephen T., 39, 50, 65, 211, 279–80, 293, 312, 336, 411, 438; election of 1936 and, 376, 378
Eben, Mary, 39, 204–5
Economy Act (1933), 7, 45, 70–74, 76, 456
Eden, Anthony, 444, 489
Edinger, Anna, 127
Edinger, Ludwig, 127
Edinger, Tilly, 127
Editor and Publisher, 82
education, 3, 4, 61, 62–63, 141, 150, 262, 356–58; of blacks, 155, 159–60, 164, 185–87; New Deal and, 70, 71, 72, 80, 88, 89–91
Edward VIII, King of England, 403
Einstein, Albert, 498
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 45
Eisler, Hanns and Lou, 499
Eleanor Roosevelt: Reluctant First Lady (Hickok), 2, 9, 192, 211
election of 1916, 18
election of 1920, 39, 384
election of 1924, 20, 335, 339
election of 1928, 318
election of 1932, 9, 19, 28, 39, 67, 81, 87, 246n; Hearst’s role in, 49, 98–99, 235, 394
election of 1934, 146, 147, 211, 218, 221–25, 345, 380; World Court and, 237
election of 1936, 255–56, 257, 281, 291, 292, 334–53, 363–88, 407, 408, 426, 441, 447, 454, 569; Democratic convention in, 346, 361, 366–72; Hearst and, 387, 394–95
election of 1938, 463, 538, 554, 555
elect
ion of 1940, 16
Elmhirst, Dorothy Payne Whitney Straight, 141
Ely, Gertrude, 215–16, 543
Emergency Relief Act (1933), 84
Emergency Unemployment Relief
Committee, 24
End Poverty in California (EPIC), 145–47, 292
England, 2, 20, 113, 134, 248n, 403, 443, 453, 470, 471, 473, 489, 491, 498, 506, 562; Ethiopian crisis and, 286–87, 331; financial problems of, 26, 92, 101–2, 306; London Conference and, 48, 49, 101–3, 107–8, 112, 113, 127; Nazi Germany, appeasement and, 6, 49, 100, 286–87, 303, 305, 320, 331, 502, 517, 539, 540, 542; Spanish Civil War and, 401; U.S. relations with, 48–19, 92, 101–2, 103, 112, 113, 127, 306
Enright, Adel, 364
environmental issues, 7, 64, 69, 83
Epstein, Szmul Elia, 344
Equal Rights Amendment, 77, 78
Ethiopia crisis, 283–88, 331, 335–36, 341, 454, 470, 489, 549
Evian Conference, 511, 517, 560, 561
Factory Investigating Commission (FIC), 77
Fairfax, lohn, 134
Fair Labor Standards Act (1938), 266, 515–16
Farley, Elizabeth Ann, 53
Farley, James A., 57–58, 67, 68, 69, 407–8, 432, 474, 569; election of 1936 and, 291, 346, 367–69, 370, 375, 377, 378, 379
Farm Credit Administration, 81
Farm Resettlement Administration, 82
Farm Security Administration, 497
fascisrn, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 81, 113, 449, 548–50, 573; in U.S., 183, 240, 307, 376; see also Germany, Nazi
Fauset, Crystal Bird, 184–85, 407
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 455
Federal Council of Churches of Christ, 180, 196n
Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA), 82, 84, 89, 247; Hick’s job at, 116, 119–20, 129, 130–31, 145, 146, 161–68, 172–76, 181–84, 187, 207–8, 215, 231, 393; racial justice and, 154, 159, 186; Women’s Division of, 86–88
Federal Rural Housing Authority, 568
Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation, 82
Federal Theater, 267–68, 448–49, 523n
Federation of Jewish Women’s Organizations, 321–22
Feuchtwanger, Lion, 97–98
Few, Marguerite Baxter, 541
Finland, 102, 110, 248 n, 306n
Finney, Ruth, 82
Fish, Hamilton, 440–41
Fisher, Dorothy Canfield, 227, 239, 480
Flanagan, Hallie, 267–68, 335–36, 422, 448, 449, 463, 523n, 555
Fleeson, Doris, 461
Forbush, Gabrielle, 413
Ford, Henry, 320
Foreign Policy Association, 118
Foreman, Clark, 510, 564
Forrer, Emil, 543
Forster, Rudolph, 279
Fox, Eddie, 121–22, 216, 255
Fox, George, 35
France, 17, 49, 113, 134, 248n, 310, 318, 443, 453, 470, 473, 488, 491, 505–6, 517, 539, 540, 542, 562, 576; Ethiopian crisis and, 286–87; financial problems of, 26, 92, 101–2, 306; Germany and, 100, 303, 309, 410; London Conference and, 107–8; Spanish Civil War and, 401; U.S. relations with, 306, 309
Frances, Bar, 204
Franco, Francisco, 331–32, 401, 409, 410, 445, 452, 454, 455, 467, 491, 507.
Frankfurter, Felix, 29–30, 128, 149, 292, 304, 317, 323–25, 354, 501–2
Frankfurter, Solomon, 501–2
Frazier, E. Franklin, 256–57
Frazier-Lemke Amendment, 264
Freed, Allie, 475
Frooks, Dorothy, 224
Fuller, Helen, 569
Furman, Bess, 32, 41, 56, 66, 120, 169, 170, 193, 367, 368, 369, 384, 412, 459
Gabriel Over the White House, 44, 45
Gallup, George, 574
Garner, John, 369, 408, 462, 463, 488
Gathering Storm, The (Churchill), 325
Gavagan, Joseph, 440
Gelders, Joseph, 427–28, 510, 564, 567n
Gellhorn, Martha, 394, 452–54, 455–56, 496
General Electric, 142, 148, 456
General Motors (GM), 425, 426, 428–29
Geneva Disarmament Conference, 49, 101, 106, 107, 111, 113, 128, 236, 305
Gennerich, Augustus (Gus), 27, 40, 194, 370, 401–3, 410
George, Walter F., 379’
George V, King of England, 341
George VI, King of England, 452
Georgia Woman’s World, 292, 345
Germany, Nazi, 5–6, 26, 27, 98–103, 109, 122–29, 218, 236, 320–34, 400, 401, 444, 471, 517, 540; Anschluss and, 490–91; cultural war in, 97–98, 100, 126; England and, see England; Final Solution and, 569–70; France and, see France; Hitler’s vision of, 489–90; Jews in, 5–6, 97–98, 100, 118–19, 122–24, 125–26, 162, 303–5, 307, 309, 320–25, 328–29, 332, 344, 441, 443n, 488, 569–70; Olympic Games in, 332–33; rearmament of, 100–101, 112, 113, 114, 128, 263, 286, 320, 325, 331; Rhineland reoccupied by, 470; Spanish Civil War and, 331–32, 401, 410, 444–45; U.S. domestic issues compared with, 6, 162, 177, 246, 313, 333; U.S. exports to, 444n; women in, 78, 122–23, 127
Germany, Weimar, 10, 49, 92, 102, 108–9, 134
Gifford, Helen, 548–49
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, 123
Girdler, Tom, 462, 463
Glass, Carter, 349
Godlove, Bud, 136, 147
Godwin, Kathryn, 168
Goebbels, Joseph, 488, 490
Goering, Hermann, 445n
Golden, John, 447/486
gold standard, 92, 102, 107, 108
Good Neighbor Policy, 174, 306, 398, 493, 520
Googins, Ruth Josephine, see Roosevelt, Ruth Josephine Googins
Gould, Beatrice, 433
Gould, Bruce, 433
Grady, Henry, 564
Graham, Frank, 564–65
Graves, Bibb, 428, 567n, 568
Grayson, Cary T., 558
Grayson, David, 466
Green, Theodore, 220
Green, William, 557
Greene, Grace, 373
Greenway, Isabella Selmes, 22, 73, 225–26, 232, 264, 280, 313–14, 356, 432–33, 437, 447, 480
Gridiron Club dinner, 47, 412
Gridiron Widows party, 47, 56, 412–13
Gross, Ethel, 85
Grynszpan, Heschel, 556
Guffey, Joe, 369, 408
Gugler, Eric, 135, 142
Hackmeister, Louise (Hacky), 39
Hadassah, 327–28
Hague, Frank, 499
Haile Selassie, 287, 288, 331, 335, 336
Haiti, 169
Haley, Mabel, 404, 495
Haley, Marshall, 404
Hall, Jacquelyn Dowd, 179
Hamilton, Alice, 61, 78, 111, 122–28, 239, 309, 324, 366
Hampton Institute, 509
Hanfstaengl, Ernst, 544
Harding, Florence Kling, 18
Harding, Warren G., 62
Harlem Art Center, 482
Harriman, Averell, 79, 231
Harriman, Daisy, 368
Harriman, E. H., 79
Harrington, F. C, 566
Harris, Mary, 187
Harrison, George L., 106, 109
Harrison, Pat, 226, 249
Hay, John, 558
Hayes, Roland, 293
Haynes, George Edmund, 254
Hays, Will, 235
health care, 61, 62–63, 124, 125–26, 141, 154–55, 171, 464; New Deal and, 70, 72, 80, 234, 242, 276, 416–17, 433
Hearst, Mülicent, 99
Hearst, William Randolph, 49, 98–99, 113, 235, 237, 239, 387, 394–95, 397, 427, 482
Helm, Edith Benham, 38, 418, 526
Hemingway, Ernest, 309, 456
Henderson, Arthur, 259
Herrick, Geneviève Forbes (Genno), 289
Herzog, Lester, 274–75
Heymann, Lida Gustava, 122
Hickok, Lorena (Hick), 5, 12–14, 66, 93–96, 161–69, 181–87, 257–62, 269, 272–76; bigotry of, 161–65, 183–84, 198–99, 572; discontent of, 174, 184, 197–9
8, 200–201, 214–15, 223, 252–53, 261, 273–74, 290, 355–56, 478, 485–86; ER biography by, see Eleanor Roosevelt: Reluctant First Lady; ER’s correspondence with, 2, 14, 41–44, 48–56, 94–96, 106–7, 116, 120, 121, 144–45, 146, 154, 161–68, 174–75, 181–87, 190, 192–201, 212, 214–21, 223–25, 228–31, 237–38, 241, 250–56, 257–61, 273–76, 280–81, 285, 290–91, 295–302, 307, 331, 340–41, 343–44, 349–50, 355–56, 359–62, 364–66, 372–76, 381, 389–97, 403–6, 413–19, 423–24, 434, 436, 446–47, 450–51, 456, 457–58, 459, 464–65, 466, 467–69, 470, 472, 475–76, 479, 483, 485–87, 515, 518, 521, 523, 524–27, 545, 547, 554, 571–72, 574–75; ER’s relationship with, 2, 12, 41–43, 46–48, 106–7, 115–16, 174–76, 192–212, 214–21, 223, 252–54, 260–61, 295, 340–41, 390, 404, 405, 411, 437, 464–65, 468–70, 478–81, 483, 485–86, 515, 518–19, 531, 536; ER’s vacations with, 1, 95, 115–18, 154–56, 167–69, 172, 202–12, 398, 416, 423, 437; FERA job of, 82, 116, 119–20, 129, 130–31, 145, 146, 161–68, 172–76, 181–84, 187, 207–8, 215, 231, 393; finances of, 340–41; former loves of, 199, 200–201, 252, 261; health problems of, 196–97, 199, 215, 355, 485; in hurricane of 1938, 545—47; inauguration and, 13, 14, 29; journalism career of, 12, 14, 47, 65, 95, 115–16, 184, 199, 201, 252, 261, 285, 348, 390, 393; Southern tours of, 161–67, 181–84; in White House, 33, 37, 47–48, 56, 221, 223, 393, 405–6, 432, 495, 496; women-only news conferences and, 40, 65; World’s Fair job of, 390, 392, 394, 423, 464–65, 469, 478, 485–86; WPA job of, 261, 273, 296–97, 298–99, 331, 359–60,’ 374, 390–91, 396
High, Stanley, 366, 377, 378
Hillman, Sidney, 379
Hitchcock, Claude, 139–40
Hitler, Adolf, 4, 5–6, 16, 26, 49, 97–98, 100–101, 109, 112, 123–28, 218, 263, 303–5, 309n, 310, 325–27, 401, 441, 443n, 455, 470, 492, 517, 529, 539, 540, 541, 544, 548, 549, 556, 559, 569–70; Olympics and, 333–34; vision of Germany of, 489–90
“Hitler’s War on Culture” (Feuchtwanger), 97–98
Hoare, Sir Samuel, 287n
Hoare-Laval agreement, 287
Hoey, Jane, 421
Holland, 107, 108, 312
Hollywood, Calif., 147, 235
Holt, Alicent (Alix), 361, 364, 365, 374
Home Owners’ Loan Corporation, 76
Honduras, 517, 561
Honeyman, Nan, 433
Hooker, Harold, 438, 451, 467
Hoopingarner, Dwight, 291
Hoover, Herbert, 19, 102, 124, 169–70, 344, 444; Bonus Marchers and, 44–45, 264
Hoover, Irwin (Ike), 32
Hoover, J. Edgar, 455, 511
Hoover, Lou Henry, 18–19, 34, 35
“Hoovervilles,” 26, 44
Hopkins, Barbara Duncan, 85, 218, 355, 475–76, 478, 515
Hopkins, Charlotte Everett, 156–57, 158, 188
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