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Rankin, Jeannette, 341, 492
Rankin, John, 564
Raper, Arthur, 178, 564, 567n
Rath, Ernst vom, 556
Read, Elizabeth, 2, 11, 97, 200, 220, 255, 294, 295, 298, 301, 375, 416–17, 433,
463–64, 465, 488, 518, 519, 526, 531, 532, 533, 547; “court packing” plan and, 431, 432; World Court and, 11, 60, 236, 237
Reader’s Digest, 328–29
Reading, Lady Stella, 356, 375
Red House, 299–300 Red Network, The (Dilling), 514
Red Scares, 497–99, 510, 514, 563
Reed, John, 309 refugees, 5, 118, 127–28, 304–5, 309–10, 320, 322n, 324, 344, 452–53, 466, 471, 543, 544, 556–62; Evian Conference on, 511, 517, 560
Reid, Elisabeth Mills, 97
Reid, Helen Rogers, 97–98, 464, 563
Reilly, Mike, 370
Report on Economic Conditions of the South, 564
Rhineland, 470, 489
Rhodes, June, 423, 432
Ribbentrop, Joachim von, 502
Rice, Elmer, 268, 335–36
Richberg, Donald, 255
Rivera, Lino, 256
Roberts, Owen, 460
Robinson, Corinne Roosevelt, 20
Robinson, John Marshall, 442
Robinson, Joseph, 1–81, 226, 236, 240–41, 460
Roche, Josephine, 68, 339, 550
Rodriguez Marques, Isaac, 319
Rogers, Maggie, 39
Rohde, Borge, 377–78
Roman Catholics, 305, 309, 318, 453–55, 504–5, 508, 514, 521–22
Romania, 488, 489, 558
Roosevelt, Anna (mother), 4, 23
Roosevelt, Anna Eleanor (daughter), see Boettiger, Anna Roosevelt Dall
Roosevelt, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt: anger of, 187, 191, 210–11, 230; antifascism of, 5–6, 122–29, 328; antiracist activism of, 3, 4–5, 75–76, 128–29, 138–40, 152–89, 201, 226–27, 243–47, 301, 302, 314, 348–9, 408, 412, 461; anti-Semitism of, 317; appearance of, 14, 28; article writing of, 3, 5, 62, 75, 200, 222, 238–39, 273–74, 276–78, 290, 372, 478, 571–74; birthdays of, 298, 384, 385, 476, 550–52; book writing of, 7, 21–23, 72, 74–76, 269–70, 278, 381, 384–85, 415, 421; as business woman, 2, 10, 35, 339; censorship and, 335–38; children and childrearing as interest of, 7, 21–22, 61–64, 71, 132–33; coldness of, 2–3, 56–57, 217, 269; columns of, 3, 9, 10–11, 21, 55, 71, 92, 102–3, 115, 131–33, 204, 241, 274, 290, 302, 306n, 312, 330, 348, 351, 360, 363–64, 381–82, 414, 416, 430, 432, 444, 448, 449, 450, 459–60, 462, 463, 466, 467–68, 482, 487, 499, 514, 548, 576; commercial broadcasts of, 3, 201–2, 457, 501; communism, 356–57, 514–15; competitiveness of, 3, 41, 58; as-controversial First Lady, 1, 9, 11–13, 66–67, 201–2, 373; dancing of, 28, 120, 152, 318, 354, 483; “darky” controversy and, 439–40; depression of, 243, 250–51, 269, 350, 364, 390; determination of, 1, 2–3, 7–8, 49, 62, 153; detractors of, 16, 21, 143–47, 155, 242, 253, 255–56, 276, 292, 356, 373; dogs of, 2–3, 56i earnings of, 3, 26, 115, 141, 201–2, 356, 447n; economic views of, 11, 12, 14, 26, 49–50, 71–72, 92, 305, 306n; as editor and publisher, 2, 10; education of, 2, 3, 20, 41; as educator, 2, 10, 12, 21, 150, 185–87, 316, 356–58, 360, 445–46; elected Woman of the Year, 484; elections and, see specific elections; emotional life of, 2, 5, 41, 52, 56, 58, 94–97, 184, 190–213, 214–21, 252–54, 260–61, 384; evolving racial views of, 161, 244–45, 439–40; family background of, 3–4, 23, 25, 155–56, 197, 230; family tensions of, 13, 16, 20–21, 31–32, 41, 55–56, 94–97, 116, 191–92, 197, 200, 246–47, 255–56, 260–61, 269, 353–54, 410–11, 438–39; feminist activism of, 3, 60–91, 118–19, 170, 173, 187, 338–39, 456–57, 513; foreign policy views of, 5–6, 11, 48, 49, 97, 102–3, 114, 192–93, 283–88, 303–5, 309–12, 330–32; gift giving of, 120, 141–42, 200, 414, 421; gifts received by, 34, 56, 79, 140, 318, 319, 393, 411–12, 448, 476, 508, 551–52; as grandmother, 22, 56, 193, 340; Greenwich Village hideaway of, 2, 294–95, 298, 362; horseback riding of, 34, 36, 37, 66, 96, 121, 195, 204, 207, 215, 476, 519, 552; internationalism of, 11, 97, 103, 114, 235–42, 283–84, 305–6, 341–42; jealousy of, 199–200, 356; labor unrest and, 424–25, 463, 465–66; lecturing of, 3, 168, 341–42, 388–93, 434, 435–37, 438, 447, 484, 492, 494–96, 550, 553; loneliness of, 3, 9, 38, 42, 144–45, 165, 192, 251–52, 356, 364; love as viewed by, 5, 22, 38, 229, 260–61; mentors of, 2, 3, 53, 61, 118–19, 231; as mother, 1, 3, 5, 21–23, 31–32, 41, 66, 94–97, 192, 235; nominated for governor of New York, 552; passive-aggressive behavior of, 2–3, 55–57; peace movement and, 5, 45—46, 60, 111, 118–19, 238–39, 330–31, 341–42, 452, 488, 492–95, 501; presidential ambitions and, 351; pro-Jewish activities of, 314, 321–23, 328, 329–30, 344; radio broadcasts of, 10, 12, 21, 201–2, 238, 240, 250–51, 301, 339, 356, 445, 457; reading of, 117, 203, 238, 274, 293; refugee efforts of, 5, 128, 344, 445, 452–53, 471, 543, 544, 562; self-awareness of, 518–19, 563; as silent about German Jews, 303–5, 309–12, 327–29; speeches of, 5–6, 24, 47, 50, 65, 118–19, 156, 170, 185–87, 222, 224, 225, 238–39, 249–50, 259, 262, 291, 301, 321–23, 327–28, 339, 348–49, 388, 391–92, 420, 425, 493, 494, 509–10, 513, 562–63, 565; swimming of, 34–35, 204, 206, 212–13, 215; teas and receptions of, 32, 34, 35, 51, 54, 96, 145, 432–33; theater interest of, 447–50; vacations of, 1, 93, 106–7, 115–18, 120–22, 154–56, 202–13, 216, 273–74, 301, 423; wardrobe of, 13–14, 28, 79, 224–25, 291, 386, 563; in Warm Springs, 154–55, 195, 229–31; White House conferences organized by, 86, 90, 156; women-only press conferences of, 1, 24, 40–41, 46, 56, 65–66, 96, 103, 112, 142, 188, 241, 250, 261 -62, 292, 348, 363, 421, 424; women’s network and, 43–44, 60–69, 234; Women’s Trade Union League and, 43—44, 62, 65, 77, 86, 220, 347, 424; youth movement and, 509, 511–14, 520, 564 Roosevelt, Archibald (cousin), 25 Roosevelt, Betsey Cushing (daughter-in-law), 13, 55, 219, 354, 436, 483, 538, 553; ER’s resentment of, 438–39, 539; FDR’s relationship with, 439, 495, 496 Roosevelt, Betty Donner (daughter-in-law), 13, 32, 94, 95, 200 Roosevelt, Daniel (nephew), 505–8, 525, 535
Roosevelt, Edith (aunt), 19–20
Roosevelt, Eleanor, II (niece), 575
Roosevelt, Elliott (father), 2, 4, 21, 120, 197, 199, 207, 230, 435, 482; death ‘of, 4, 23, 217; ER’s correspondence with, 2, 41; ER’s tributes to, 23–25
Roosevelt, Elliott (son), 13, 116, 435, 482; family abandoned by, 31–32, 94–97; second marriage of, 175
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano (husband); anniversary of, 44; anticommunism and, 81, 143, 387, 426; antilynching legislation and, 440–43; Arthurdale and, 133, 135–36, 140, 142–43, 157; assassination attempt against, 27–28; as assistant secretary of Navy, 39; birthdays of, 16, 47, 166, 242, 420–21, 425; Caribbean issues and, Roosevelt, Franklin Delano (husband) 170, 172, 173–74, 200, 209; collective security efforts of, 470–71, 488;
dictator remarks about, 182, 399; economy as viewed by, 11, 27, 92, 103–4, 105–6, 113; in election of 1920, 39, 384; in election of 1934, 211, 221, 225, 345; in election of 1936, 255–56, 257, 281, 291, 298, 334, 353, 361, 363–88, 394, 395, 407, 408, 426; in election of 1938, 516–17, 538; ER compared with, 1, 29, 49, 62, 137; ER’s correspondence with, 14–15, 31, 93, 96–97, 118, 170, 172, 209, 218, 254, 389, 395, 397–99, 402–3, 436–37, 491, 492, 495–96, 519, 520, 539, 541; ER’s disagreements with, 5, 7, 11, 29, 36, 99–100, 109–12, 135–36, 230, 269, 353–54, 401, 431–32, 447, 463, 464, 496; ER’s health problems and, 382, 384; ER’s marriage to, 1–2, 5, 9–10, 33–34, 55–56, 58–59, 190–91, 206–7, 259, 269–70, 384, 385; ER on, 467–68; ER’s relationship with, 438–39, 447, 495, 541; ER’s usefulness to, 1–2, 4–5, 13, 29–30, 36–37, 120, 272; family crises and, 94–95, 96; at FDR Jr.’s wedding, 458; fiscal conservatism of, 7, 11, 70–74n, 76; foreign policy of, 5–6, 27, 97, 98–114, 173–74, 192–93, 200, 235–37, 240–41, 285, 303–9, 312–13, 323–25, 398–401, 409–10; Galápagos cruise of, 517–18, 520; Gennerich’s death and, 401–3, 409, 410; as governor, 10, 40, 84, 247; Alice Hamilton’s meeting with, 123, 12
7–28; Hearst’s deal with, 49, 98–99; Howe’s death and, 350–51, 353, 361, 401–2, 410; inaugurations of, 9, 13–14, 20, 25–29, 67, 398, 417–18, 420; International Bridge dedicated by, 520–21; Jewish question and, 303–5, 323–25, 344; labor unrest and, 209–10n, 220, 394, 426, 428–29, 462–63, 465–66; London Economic Conference and, 5, 48, 49, 93, 102–14; Alice Roosevelt Longworth’s attacks on, 20–21, 385–86, 433; Mercer’s affair with, 9–10, 13, 531; mother’s relationship with, 192, 193, 256–57, 273, 308, 382, 397–98; Munich pact condemned by, 541–42; Nesbitt’s food preparations and, 2, 44, 51–59; neutrality policy of, 443–44, 452, 454–56, 471–72; polio and paralysis of, 1, 10, 20–21, 28, 35, 154–55, 165, 273; political appointments made by, 14–15, 29–30, 67–69; political wiles of, 4, 29, 49, 62, 97, 99, 113–14, 181, 246; press conferences of, 41, 293, 431; “purge” campaign of, 516–17, 538; quarantine speech of, 473–75; racial issues and, 2, 4, 39, 180–82, 188, 196n, 243–47; radio broadcasts of, 27, 180, 196; recession of 1937 and, 462, 476; refugees and, 128, 543, 556–62; social security and, 227, 233–35, 247–49, 258, 281–82; South American trip of, 398–401; Southern strategy of, 4, 182, 244, 249, 256, 345–46, 408–9; speeches of, 26–27, 100–101, 180, 196, 233–35, 243, 258–59, 301, 366, 369–72, 385, 387, 399–400, 417–18, 420, 433–34, 473–75, 486, 538; staff of, 37–38, 39–40; Supreme Court vs., 264–66, 361, 409, 431–34, 435, 442, 447, 460, 461–62; U.S. removed from gold standard by, 92, 102; vacations of, 104–9, 376; Washington conference, proposed by, 488–89; White House life of, 33–38; World Court and, 235–37, 240–41
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, Jr. (deceased son), 96
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, Jr. (son), 13, 22, 23, 31, 104–5, 106, 112, 175, 212, 298, 388, 476; health problems of, 397–98, 404, 411, 413–14, 415; marriage of, 457–58, 516
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, III (grandson), 550
Roosevelt, Gracie Hall (brother), 29, 42, 50, 191, 202, 291, 293, 298, 301, 393, 47, 466, 470, 471, 474, 476, 481, 483, 485, 505–8, 515, 525, 531–32, 575
Roosevelt, Helen (niece), 575
Roosevelt, James (son), 13, 18, 41, 104–5, 106, 212, 219, 255, 298, 398, 399, 402, 436, 438, 458, 467, 482, 485, 495, 516, 538–39, 553; as Howe’s replacement, 260, 353–54, 410–11
Roosevelt, John (son), 13, 22–23, 31, 104–5, 106, 166, 175, 212, 298, 516
Roosevelt, Kermit (cousin), 25
Roosevelt, Ruth Josephine Googins (daughter-in-law), 96, 175, 482
Roosevelt, Sara Delano (mother-in-law), 11, 13, 26, 33, 58, 59, 107, 110, 154, 159, 181, 199, 221, 235, 254, 273, 410, 467, 474, 525, 552–53; ER’s correspondence with, 317; ER’s problems with, 34, 94–96, 191–92, 255–56, 290, 398; FDR’s relationship with, 192, 193, 256–57, 273, 308, 382, 397–98; health problems of, 360
Roosevelt, Theodore, Jr. (uncle), 10, 16, 21, 23, 61, 83, 199, 206, 386, 557–58, 573; as president, 9, 19–20, 24, 32, 156, 256, 324, 457
Roosevelt, Theodore, Sr. (grandfather), 24, 329
Roosevelt, William (grandson), 32
Roosevelt (model project), 140
Root, Elihu, 97
Roper, Daniel Calhoun, 15n, 346n
Rose, Flora, 54, 361
Rosenberg, Anna, 529
Rosenberg, Sarah, 358
Rosenman, Samuel, 13, 313, 317, 366
Ross, Nellie Tayloe, 68
Rothschild, Florence, 322
Rumsey, Mary Harriman, 68, 73, 79, 231–32, 302
Ruperez, Adolfo, 508
Russell, George, 79
Rutherford, Lucy Mercer, 9–10, 13, 28, 531
Saavedra Lamas, Carlos, 400, 409
Sackville-West, Vita, 500, 502
Sandino, Augusto and Socrates, 173
Saturday Evening Post, 283–84
Schacht, Hjalmar, 333
Schall, Thomas D., 147, 240
Schecter (“sick chicken”) case, 265
Schiff, Jacob, 557–58
Schlesinger, Arthur M, 369–70
Schneiderman, Rose, 62, 77–79, 171, 266, 273, 347, 457, 498
Schumann-Heink, Ernestine, 393–94
Schuschnigg, Kurt von, 310, 490
Scripps-Howard, 82, 146, 390
eattle Post-Intelligencer, 394, 395–96
Senate, U.S., 44, 76, 97, 167, 180, 246, 254, 264, 266, 313, 408, 431, 440, 442–43; Committee on Civil Liberties (La
Follette Committee) of, 426–27;
Foreign Relations Committee of, 237, 242, 313; Judiciary Committee of, 461; World Court and, 235–43
Shapiro, Feige, 347
Shaw, George Bernard, 10n, 216, 449n
Sheppard-Towner Act (1921), 62–63, 277
Shepperson, Gay, 163
Sherwood, Robert, 272
Shirer, William, 517, 540
Shulman, Sammy, 169, 171
Simkhovitch, Mary, 293, 420
Simon Boccanegra (Verdi), 24–25
Simpson, Wallis, 403
Sinclair, Upton, 144–47, 292, 499
Sledge, Ida, 564
Sloan, Alfred P., 425, 429
Smith, Al, 77, 314, 318, 335, 345, 423
Smith, Ed, 380, 408
Smith, Hilda Worthington, 89–90, 186, 271, 282, 356–58, 383
Smith, Lillian, 302–3
Smith, Margaret Chase, 65
Smoot-Hawley tariff, 102, 104
socialism, 4, 61, 81, 143, 145, 227
social security, 218, 227, 233–35, 247–50, 258, 277–78
Social Security Act (1935), 273n, 281–82, 302, 388, 417, 460
Social Security Board, 282, 346, 421
Sokoloff, Nikolai, 267, 422
Somoza, Anastasio, 173–74, 400
Southern Conference on Human Welfare (SCHW), 4, 6, 428, 510, 511, 513–14, 538, 563–68, 573
Southern Summer School for Workers, 357
Southern Tenant Farmers Union, 4, 160, 278, 380, 412, 568n
Souvestre, Marie, 2, 53, 549
Soviet Union, 4, 6, 100, 102, 126, 183, 216, 286, 331, 401, 491, 563; Strong’s visits to, 342–43, 423–24; U.S. relations with, 113–14, 192–93, 306–9
Spain, 5, 24, 332–33, 473, 490, 499, 549, 576
Spanish-American War, 24
Spanish Civil War, 5, 6, 332–33, 383–84, 390, 400, 409, 424, 467, 491, 492; communists and, 453–55, 471; Guernica bombing in, 444–45; refugee issue in, 452–54; U.S. embargo and, 443–44, 452, 454, 471, 504–7
Spanish Earth, The, 456
Spingarn, Arthur, 244
Spingarn, Joel, 288, 442
Stalin, Joseph, 309, 491
State Department, U.S., 6, 68, 103–4, 259, 303–5, 309, 313, 344, 409, 454, 471, 499, 502, 504, 506, 521, 539, 550, 560, 562; anti-Semitism in, 543–44, 559
Steffens, Lincoln, 308–9, 343
Stewart, Florence, 348–49
Stimson, Henry, 97, 99n, 444
Strauss, Lillian, 498–99
Strayer, Martha, 157
strikes, 169, 171, 173, 209, 209–10n, 220, 394, 424–31, 441, 451, 456, 462–63, 465
Strong, Anna Louise, 342–43, 423–24, 455, 515
Strong, Patience, 487
Studebaker, John W, 186, 269, 339
Subsistence Homestead program, 134–52, 226
Supreme Court, U.S., 63, 264–66, 336–37, 361, 409, 417, 425, 460; Black’s nomination to, 474; FDR’s “court packing” plan and, 431–34, 435
Susan and God (Crothers), 448
Switzerland, 107, 108
Swope, Gerard Bayard, 142, 529
Swope, Herbert Bayard, 105, 110, 294
Taft, Helen Herron (Nellie), 17, 31
Taft, Robert A., 555
Taft, William Howard, 17, 31, 555
Talbott, Harold, 506
Talmadge, Eugene, 220, 345, 408
tariffs, 26, 102, 103, 104
taxes, 11, 32, 71, 81, 173, 242, 272; social security and, 248–49, 273n, 282
Taylor, Myron, 220, 517, 560
Teapot Dome scandal, 20, 28
Tennessee Va
lley Authority (TVA), 76, 80–81, 298, 477
This Is My Story (Eleanor Roosevelt), 381, 385, 415, 421, 480, 484, 486
This Troubled World (Eleanor Roosevelt), 7, 472, 473, 484–85, 488, 492, 493
Thomas, Hugh, 455
Thomas, Norman, 227, 499
Thompson, Dorothy, 364, 452, 500, 570
Thompson, Malvina (Tommy), 2, 42, 56, 166, 187, 211, 219, 221, 245, 258,
279, 312, 321, 364, 404, 414, 435, 451, 485, 507, 518, 519, 532, 533, 568; Anna’s correspondence with, 433, 434, 436, 437, 438, 445, 447, 483, 484, 495, 526–27, 528, 530, 536, 554–55; ER’s travels with, 44, 120, 273, 297, 343, 355, 358, 360, 362, 393, 477, 553; ER’s work with, 11–12, 38, 66, 115, 229, 238, 273, 274, 298, 343, 348, 383, 384, 415; Hick and, 390, 392, 423, 479; Missy’s correspondence with,’ 247; in Warm Springs, 229, 231 Time, 167–68, 239, 240, 264, 337, 413, 450
Todhunter School, 2, 10, 12, 316, 318, 360, 527, 535
“Tolerance” (Eleanor Roosevelt), 571
Townsend, Francis E., 247, 376 trade unionism, 61, 77, 78, 131, 149–50, 183, 209, 209–10n, 218, 220, 226, 266, 424–26
Travelers Aid Society, 50, 86
Treasury, U.S., 74, 192, 458n
Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire, 77
Trujillo, Rafael Leónidas, 169, 400
Truman, Bess, 59n
Tugwell, Rexford Guy, 15, 53, 61, 64, 82–83, 151, 154, 169, 174, 330, 355
Tully, Grace, 13, 376
Tumulty, Joseph, 103
Tuskegee Institute, 153, 155
Tydings, Millard, 313, 517
Uncle Sham, 441–42
unemployment, 7, 9, 11, 24, 44–45, 70, 72, 74, 218, 311, 396, 497
unemployment insurance, 234, 249, 258, 282
Union Party, 376
United Auto Workers (UAW), 428–30
United Features, 302, 424
United Nations, 6
United Press (UP), 65, 169, 224
United Textile Workers, 220
Urban League, 301, 567n-68n
Uruguay, 399, 400, 517
Val-Kill, 10, 33, 52, 104, 106, 121, 125, 190, 219, 260, 298, 301, 365, 376, 411; crafts factory in, 2, 10, 32, 80, 134, 147, 360–61; demise of partnership in, 524–26, 530–37; ER’s private home at, 360–62
Vanderbilt, Arthur, 499
Van Devanter, Willis, 460
Van Nuys, Frederick, 440
Vargas, Getulio, 399