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by Blanche Wiesen Cook


  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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