Abbott, Grace, 130
Acheson, Dean, 107, 109
Adams, Henry, 13, 73
Addams, Jane, 3, 49, 61, 67, 78, 123, 127, 128, 135, 236, 259, 263, 304, 322n, 514, 516; in peace movement, 5, 49, 111, 113, 122, 239; social security and, 234, 235, 247
Advisory Committee on Economic Security, 218, 234, 248–49
African-Americans, 57–58, 152–89, 254–57, 333, 566; Arthurdale and, 138–40, 153; in Congress, 19, 88; election of 1936 and, 335, 345–46, 379–80, 408; ER’s alliances with, 4, 153–54, 160–61, 176–81, 183, 188, 226, 243–47, 288, 314; New Deal and, 75–76, 78, 88, 90, 129, 138–40, 153, 226, 247, 248, 254–55, 268, 270, 278–80, 282, 288, 291–93, 345–46, 407–8, 460–61; see also antilynching legislation; civil rights movement
Afro-American 565
Aftermath, The (Churchill), 549
Agnew, Ella, 244–15
Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA), 81–82, 247, 336–37, 412
Agriculture Department, U.S., 14–15, 60, 81–83
Albert, King of Belgium, 205–6
Alexander, Will, 154, 178, 282, 379, 380
Alfonso XIII, King of Spain, 454
Alinsky, Saul, 429
Allen, Florence E., 68, 239
Allen, Jay, 504
Allenswood, 2, 3, 20, 41
Alley Dwelling Authority (ADA), 189, 349
alley dwelling bill, 157–58, 166, 167, 176, 188
Alsberg, Henry, 267
Alsop, Corinne Robinson, 16, 341
Amateur Air Pilots Association, 50
America First, 225–26
American Association of University Women, 562–63
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), 128, 180
American Federation of Labor, 150, 314, 424, 557
American Foundation, 11, 97, 114, 236, 242, 433, 464
American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), 129, 133, 137–41, 184, 202, 309, 453, 505, 543, 544
American Jewish Congress, 314, 321–22
American Medical Association (AMA), 62, 417
American Red Cross, 558
American Student Union, 280, 511
American Union Against Militarism, 49
American Youth Act, 504
American Youth Congress (AYC), 4, 6, 278, 280, 341, 504, 511–14, 520, 522, 562, 566, 573
Ames, Jessie Daniel, 178–79
anticommunism, 6, 60, 81, 259, 281; Arthurdale and, 138, 143–46; Bonus Marchers and, 45, 46; labor unrest and, 131, 209–10n, 220, 426, 427, 430; women’s network and, 61, 62 antilynching legislation, 160, 176–81, 188, 226, 243–47, 256, 279, 346, 391, 408–9, 440–43, 510–11, 568 anti-Semitism, 240, 295, 309–18, 319–21, 323–25, 376, 497; in Austria, 490, 500, 502–3; in Nazi Germany, 5–6, 118–19, 122–24, 125–26, 162, 303–5, 307, 309–13, 320–25, 328–29, 561; in State Department, 543–44, 559
“Appeal to the Nations” (F. D. Roosevelt), 100
Argentina, 399; 400, 517
Armstrong, Hamilton Fish, 95, 444, 455
Armwood, George, 180
Army, U.S., 45, 91, 210
Arthur, Richard, 134
Arthurdale project, 129, 133–52, 157, 164, 166, 173, 188, 189, 201, 204–5, 215–16, 255, 299, 300, 351, 476, 527, 532, 563
Associated Press (AP), 12, 39, 43, 65, 95, 116, 169
Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching, 178–79
Astor, Nancy Langhorne, 65, 95, 216, 500–502
Astor, Vincent, 184–85, 254
Astor, Waldorf, 95, 110
Augsburg, Anita, 122
Australia, 517, 561
Austria, 26, 119, 126, 134, 248n, 310, 324–25, 499, 517, 570; German Anschluss of, 490–91, 559; Jews of, 490, 500, 502–3, 543
Babies—Just Babies, 21–22
Bach, Mme. Kraemer, 118
Backer, Dorothy Schiff, 373, 501
Baeck, Leo, 311
Baer, Gertrude, 122
Baker, Elizabeth, 549–50
Baker, Joseph, 336–38
Baker, Mary, 350
Baker, Ray Stannard, 103
Baldwin, Joseph Clark, 394, 423
Baldwin, Roger, 128, 426
Baldwin, Stanley, 287, 401
Ballad of Black Jim, The (Eisler and Brecht), 499
Bankhead-Jones bill, 462
BankingAct(1933), 70
Barber, Philip, 33*6
Barton, Bruce, 364–65
“Barton, Jack,” hearings on, 427
Baruch, Annie Griffen, 318, 319, 320, 486
Baruch, Belle Wolfe, 319
Baruch, Bernard, 77, 140–42, 148–51, 300, 308, 317–20, 356, 405, 411–12, 450, 470, 486, 515, 528; Jewish question and, 305, 312, 320; London Conference and, 105, 106, 107, 109
Baruch, Herman, 525, 528
Baruch, Simon, 319
Batista, Fulgencio, 173, 400
Beale, Howard K., 186
Beard, Mary Ritter, 75
Beatty, Bessie, 373
“Because the War Idea Is Obsolete” (Eleanor Roosevelt), 238–39
Beer and Wine Act (1933), 76
Belgium, 107, 205–6, 498, 562
Bell, Vanessa, 540
Benes, Edvard, 541
Benêt, Stephen Vincent, 117
Berge, Otto, 361
Berle, A.A., 15, 521
Bernstein, Doris, 497
Bessie, Alvah, 508
Bethune, Albert, 159–60
Bethune, Mary McLeod, 4, 159–61, 280, 379, 380, 412, 513, 565, 566, 567, 568; National Youth Administration
and, 270, 278
Beyer, Clara, 62
Biddle, George, 332
Bingham, Robert, 36, 63, 361
Birth ofa Baby, 514
Black, Hugo, 475, 568
Black, Josephine Foster, 475
Black, Ruby, 82, 169, 173, 195
Black Cabinet, 160
Black Reconstruction (Du Bois), 293
Blum, León, 401, 557, 576
Boettiger, Anna Roosevelt Dali, 13–14, 47, 79, 166, 174, 221; employment of, 21, 115, 394, 395, 427; ER’s correspondence with, 203, 230, 288, 290, 379, 385, 389, 396, 405, 411, 414, 419, 433, 437, 438, 458, 466–67, 475, 485, 495, 519–20, 531, 547–48, 552; ER’s relationship with, 394,
445–46, 482–83; Hick’s correspondence with, 198, 294–95; John Boettiger’s relationship with, 31, 194, 202, 216, 221, 235; marital problems of, 31, 116, 192, 194, 199, 200; Tommy’s correspondence with, 433, 434, 436, 437, 438, 445, 447, 483, 484, 526–27, 528, 530, 536, 554–55
Boettiger, John, 31, 194, 202, 216, 221, 229, 235, 481
employment of, 31, 235, 298, 394, 395, 427
Boettiger, John, Jr., 554
Bok, Curtis, 236–37
Bolivia, 400, 409
Bonner, Daisy, 155
Bonnet, Georges, 505, 540, 542.
Bonus Marchers, 44–46, 264
Borah, William E., 239, 504
Bourne, Dorothy, 171 -
Bowen, Louise deKoven, 263
Bowers, Claude, 409, 505
Bowman, Isaiah, 560–61, 562
Brains Trust, 13, 15, 61, 317
Brandeis, Louis D., 265
Brandt, Carl, 116
Brazil, 398–99, 400, 561
Brett, Jane, 469, 482
Brett, Roberta, 482
Brewster project, 291–93
Bridges, Harry, 209–10n
Brisbane, Arthur, 458–59
Brittain, Vera, 6, 481–82
Brodsky, Bertha, 329–30
Brodsky, Frank, 329–30
Broun, Heywood, 424, 427, 463
Brown, John, 117, 165
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 260
Bryan, Mary Baird, 68
Bryan, William Jennings, 68
Bryce, Jeannette, 355–56, 364
Bryn Mawr Summer School for Working Women, 89–90, 356
Buck, Pearl, 238, 244, 570
Buckley, Katherine, 57
Bugbee, Emma, 25, 36, 44, 169, 192
Bullitt, William C, 60, 104, 132, 193, 307–9, 343, 410, 436, 489, 501, 505–6, 542, 544
Bulloch, Martha (Mittie), 155
Bye, George, 290, 393, 447, 527
Cadden, Joe, 522
Cahill, Holger, 268
Cameron, Elizabeth, 73
Camp Jane Addams (Camp Tera), 88–89, 90, 129, 358, 466
Campobello, 104, 106–7, 109–12, 114, 118, 190, 272–81, 283, 376, 378
Canada, 118, 517, 520–21, 561
“Can a Woman Be Elected President” (Eleanor Roosevelt), 276–77
Canton Repository, 484
Can You Hear Their Voices (Chambers), 267
Caraway, Hattie, 56
Cárdenas, Lázaro, 550
Carey, Esther S., 439
Catt, Carrie Chapman, -5, 111, 118–19, 123–24, 127–28, 237, 238, 304, 322, 472, 488, 514
Cause and Cure of War, 238–39, 241, 488
Celler, Emmanuel, 442
Cermak, Anton J., 27-n28
Chadbourn, James, 178
Chamberlain, Neville, 108, 113, 471, 491, 500, 502, 539–42, 547; FDR’s conference proposal rejected by, 488–89
Chambers, Whittaker, 267n
Chaney, Mayris (Tiny), 121–22, 194, 216, 219, 255, 385, 495, 575
Chapman, Oscar, 142, 173, 247
Charlton, Louise, 510, 566, 567n
Chautauqua Club, 118–19
Chazy Lake, 93, 121–22, 216, 218
Chicago Tribune, 31, 105, 235, 289, 504
child labor, 61, 63–64, 149, 220, 266
Children’s Bureau, 130, 513
China, 99n, 100, 341, 441, 452, 470, 471–72, 473, 491, 492, 558
Chisum, Melvin, 158
Chrysler, Walter, 430
Churchill, Clementine, 507
Churchill, Winston, 34, 49, 286, 288, 306, 320, 325, 488–91, 500, 507, 517, 541, 542–43, 549; Baruch and, 317, 318; Nazis denounced by, 470–71
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
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
election 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
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
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, 197–98, 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
Hopkins, Diana, 85, 485, 495, 496, 515
Hopkins, Harry, 82, 84–86, 88, 89, 90, 143, 146, 162, 250, 280, 288, 296–97, 351, 355, 411, 420, 456, 458, 475–76, 482, 485, 496, 515, 528, 566; ER’s birthday poem by, 550–51; Flanagan and, 267, 268; Hick’s work for, 116, 119, 165, 167–68, 172, 181, 207–8, 219, 331, 396; Ickes’s feuds with, 207–8; National Youth Administration and, 269, 270; racial justice and, 153, 159; social security and, 218, 234, 235; in White House, 476, 477
Horowitz, Salamon, 344
Horton, Myles, 565, 568n
Houghteling, James, 498–99
House of Representatives, U.S., 21, 44, 70, 167, 246, 264, 266, 313, 431, 440, 442, 555; Appropriations Committee of, 349; Un-American Activities Committee of (HUAC), 357, 499, 522, 523, 555; Ways and Means Committee of, 248, 254 housing and model communities, 4, 18, 61, 76; ER’s efforts for, 3, 50, 70, 120, 128–52, 156–58, 166, 169–71, 172–73, 188–89, 226, 255, 291–94, 299–300, 348–49, 420; see also Arthurdale project
Housing Authority, U.S., 497
Howe.’Frederic, 60, 149
Howe, Louis, 11, 13, 15, 16, 29, 42, 45, 47, 67, 72, 85, 89, 95, 106, 194, 242, 301, 432, 463, 477, 487, 534, 545; Arthurdale and, 134–36, 142, 351; death of, 55, 254, 273, 340, 348–55, 361–64, 385, 401–2, 410, 419, 421; Democratic Women’s Committee and, 67, 369; election of 1936 and, 363, 377–80; ER influenced by, 15, 84, 221, 290, 378–80, 384, 421; ER’s travels with, 168, 211, 221; health problems of, 15, 34, 166, 273; James Roosevelt as replacement for, 260, 353–54, 410–11; London Conference and, 112; in White House, 34, 166; women-only press conferences and, 40, 65–66
Hughes, Charles Evans, 26
Hull, Cordell, 15n, 209n, 314, 409, 454, 470, 544, 550, 558; London
Conference and, 103–4, 107, 109, 111, 113, 114
Humphreys, William E., 264
Hungary, 489, 539
Hunting Big Game in the Eighties: The Letters of Elliott Roosevelt,
Sportsman, 23
Hurd, Charles, 105, 109–10
Hurricane of 1938, 545–47
Hurst, Fannie, 29, 68–69, 339, 342, 350, 378, 421, 460
Hyde Park, N.Y., 10, 16, 59, 95, 123, 124, ‘190–91, 218–19, 249, 254, 273, 388, 396
Ibarruri, Dolores, 455
Ickes, Anna Wilmarth, 67, 140, 259, 288–89
Ickes, Harold L., 15n, 52–53, 173, 188, 210n, 211–12, 259, 285, 288–90, 293, 296–97, 303, 307, 400, 433–34, 461, 473, 486, 491, 504, 558–59; Arthurdale and, 134–36, 142–43, 188; election of 1936 and, 372, 375–77, 395; ER’s influence opposed by, 67, 135–36, 242; Hopkins’s feuds with, 207–8; PWA and, 77, 84, 158–59; racial justice and, 154, 158–59, 226, 288, 380, 408; Spanish embargo opposed by, 504–5
Ickes, Jane Dahlman, 290
Ihlder, John, 189, 349
Immigration and Naturalization Service, 467, 498
“In Defense of Curiosity” (Eleanor Roosevelt), 283–8 4
India, 441–42 industrial codes, 61, 64, 76–80, 171–72, 266
Industrial Emergency Committee, 210n
Inniss, Margaret, 150
integration, 159, 170, 278, 348–49; of White House, 161, 293, 358
Inter-American Conference for the Maintenance of Peace, 399–400
Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees, 517, 560, 562
Interior Department, U.S., 68–69, 170, 173, 348, 461; Subsistence Homesteads Division in, 134–43, 226
International Commission on Refugees, 128
International Congress of Women, 118–19
International Peace Conference (1899), 236
isolationism, 4–5, 11, 26, 97, 99, 101, 236, 257, 313, 320, 394, 492, 539; Ethiopia crisis and, 283–88
Italy, 26, 78, 107, 182, 218, 248n, 306n, 310, 400, 444, 471, 488, 489, 540, 558; Ethiopia crisis and, 283–88, 331, 336, 341, 470, 489; Spanish Civil War and, 401, 410
it’s Up to the Women (Eleanor Roosevelt), 7, 21, 72, 74–76
Ivens, Joris, 456
Japan, 6, 17, 99–100, 113–14, 124, 306, 331, 341, 401, 441, 443, 452, 470, 471–72, 491, 540; Panay incident and, 481–82, 558
Jewish Examiner, 327 Jewish Federation, 314–15
Jews, 139n, 140, 309–25, 332–34, 511, 517, 529, 540, 544, 556–61; Austrian, 490, 500, 502–3, 543, 559; ER’s articles on, 571–72; German, 6, 97–98, 100, 118–19, 122–24, 125–26, 162, 303–5, 307, 309–13, 320, 328–29, 332, 441, 443 n, 488, 556–60, 562, 569–70
Johannesen, Nellie, 361
John Brown’s Body (Benét), 117
Johns Manville Company, 201–2, 427
Johnson, Charles S., 153, 567n
Johnson, Genora, 428
Johnson, Hiram, 236, 237, 239
Johnson, Hugh, 77, 78, 80, 85, 231
Johnson, James Weldon, 244, 288
Johnson, Mordecai, 153, 278n
Johnson Act (1934), 113
Jonay, Roberta, 356, 362, 365, 451
Jones, Delano, 244–45
Jones, Franklin, 244–45
Jones, John and Mary, 245
Jones, Roosevelt, 244–45
Junior League, 16, 79, 231, 422
Justice Department, U.S., 243
Keepers of Democracy (Eleanor Roosevelt), 573
Keitel, Wilhelm, 542
Keller, Helen, 259, 273
Kelley, Florence, 3, 61–65, 234, 266, 430, 515, 516
Kelley, Nicholas, 430
Kellogg-Briand Pact (1928), 473
Kennedy, Joseph, 472, 501, 503, 516, 529, 543–44
Kraft, Barbara, 88
Kresse, AI, 93
Kristallnacht, 556–60, 562, 564
Ku Klux Klan, 60, 61, 68, 160, 177, 179, 292, 319, 368, 436, 475, 554
Labor Department, U.S., 74, 344, 452–53, 498, 499, 516
Ladies’ Home Journal, 421, 433, 435, 446, 447
Ladies of the Press (Ross), 348
La Follette, Robert, 84, 426–27
La Follette Committee, 426–27, 451
La Guardia, Fiorello, 80, 256–57, 294, 314, 473–74, 521, 525
Larhont, Thomas, 489
Landon, Alf, 345, 349, 376–77, 378, 380, 385, 387, 388, 499
Landon, Theo Cobb, 373
Landsberg, Clara, 122
Langston Project, 349
Lape, Esther, 2, 42, 96, 98, 115, 200, 220, 294, 295, 298, 301, 375, 416–17, 433, 450, 463–64, 465, 466, 488, 518, 519, 520, 531, 532, 533, 546, 547; in American Foundation, 11, 97, 114, 236, 242; “court packing” plan and, 431, 432; Soviet policy and, 114, 307; World Court and, 11, 60, 236–37, 241
Lash, Joseph P., 228, 280, 504, 511
Lawrenson, Helen, 318
Leach, Agnes Brown, 13, 35, 99, 257; election of 1936 and, 344, 373
Leach, Henry Goddard, 13, 35
League of Nations, 60, 97, 100, 101, 124, 128, 236, 306, 310, 401, 472, 473, 493, 523, 539–40, 541; Ethiopia crisis and, 283, 286–87, 331, 336, 454
League of Women Voters, 52, 63, 77, 86, 222
Lee, Howard, 565–66
Le Gallienne, Richard, 391–92
LeHand, Marguerite (Missy), 13, 154, 165, 166, 193, 247, 375, 438, 485, 525; ER’s relationship with, 37–38; FDR’s reliance ón, 37–38, 55, 194
Lehman, Herbert, 449, 555
Leichter, Sarah, 79–80
Lemke, William, 376
Lenin, V. I., 308
Le Sueur, Meridel, 86
Leuchtenberg, William, 380
Lewis, John L., 381, 425, 426, 428–29, 454–55, 462, 465–66, 568
Lewis, Sinclair, 449
Liberty League, 219, 225, 335, 341, 345, 380, 387, 394, 397
Lincoln, Abraham, 33, 34, 347
Lindbergh, Charles, 503, 557
Lindley, Betty, 270, 412
Lindsay, Elisabeth Cameron, 73, 166, 432, 575
Lindsay, Sir Ronald, 73, 488
Litvinov, Ivy Low, 260, 306
Litvinov, Maxim, 113, 306–8, 343, 491, 493, 540, 542, 544
Living Newspaper, 335–37, 463
Logan, Bart, 427, 428
London Economic Conference (1933), 5, 48, 49, 93, 101–15, 118, 127, 236, 305, 470, 471
Long, Breckenridge, 284–85, 286, 559
Long, Huey, 73, 239, 242, 247, 290–91, 434
Longworth, Alice Roosevelt, 16, 20–21, 25, 368, 385–86, 416, 433, 480
Longworth, Nicholas, 21 ‘
Lowell, Josephine Shaw, 62
Lubin, Isadore, 516
Luce, Clare Booth, 319, 449–50
Luce, Henry, 450
Ludlow, Louis, 144
Lundeen, Ernest, 249
lynching, 5–7, 176–81, 196n, 243–47, 256, 279, 301, 441, 442, 510–11
McAdoo, William C. ibbs, 68, 226
MacArthur, Douglas, 45 “
McCloskey, Mark, 358, 385, 512
McCormick, Anne O’Hare, 312
MacCracken, Henry, 522, 524
McDonald, James, 118, 127–28, 324
MacDonald, Ramsay, 48–49, 103, 107, 108, 112, 113, 121, 127
McDuffie, Irvin (Mac), 40, 155
McDuffie, Lizzie, 40, 155, 404
Mclntyre, Marvin, 13, 39–40, 180, 245, 411, 463, 464
McKinley, Ida Saxton, 16–17
McKinley, William, 17, 24
McLaren, Louise, 357
McLaughlin, Kathleen, 373
Madison Square Garden, Nazi rally in, 325–27
Mahoney, Jeremiah, 332
Manchester, William, 318
Mann, Thomas, 548
Manning, William T., 71
Manus, Rosa, 118
Marbury, Elisabeth, 10
Markham, Edward, 370
Marsh, Carolyn, 415
Marsh, Reginald, 244
Mary Alice, 105, 109
Masaryk, Jan, 544
Masaryk, Thomas, 310–11
Mason, Lucy Randolph, 4, 257, 266, 428, 510, 511, 536, 564, 567n, 568
Matthews, Herbert L., 507n, 508
Matthews, J. B., 523–24
Matthews, W. H., 129
Mein Kampf (Hitler), 126, 320, 490
Mellet, Lowell, 564
Mendieta, Carlos, 173
Mercer, Lucy, see Rutherford, Lucy Mercer
Merriam, Frank, 147
Messersmith, George, 325
Metcalf, Adelaide, 496
Metcalf, James, 496
Mexico, 184, 236, 517, 550, 555
Michelson, Charley, 368, 378
Milgram, Charles, 344
Miller, Earl, 13, 29, 40, 42, 93, 121–22, 199, 218, 229, 301, 365, 385, 448, 463, 466, 469, 482, 485, 519, 524, 525, 551; ER’s gifts from, 34, 56, 476; ER’s relationship with, 2, 5, 11, 34, 40, 93, 106, 166, 194, 215, 216–19, 254, 260, 356, 360–62, 404–5, 411, 447
Miller, Emma Guffey, 369
Miller, Mrs. S., 327
Miller, Ruth, 29, 93, 121
Millin, Sarah Gertrude, 315–17
Mitchell, Arthur W, 380
Mitford, Unity, 503
Mittell, Sherman, 149
Mobilization for Human Needs Campaign, 158, 297
Moffat, Jay Pierrepont, 544
Mola, Emilio, 452
Moley, Raymond, 13, 15, 72, 104, 105, 107–13, 114, 149, 314, 366, 387
Moore, R. Walton, 313
Morgan, Marie, 515
Morgenthau, Elinor, 13, 47, 96, 122, 166, 187, 217, 219, 229, 255, 295, 361, 363, 368, 373, 412, 413, 433, 557; ER’s correspondence with, 283, 285, 295, 303, 408, 499, 519; Jewish question and, 305, 315, 321, 327–28
Morgenthau, Henry, III, 317, 321
Morgenthau, Henry, Jr., 13, 14–15, 106, 192, 219, 229, 307, 361, 396, 458, 497, 501, 507, 560–61; Jewish question and, 315, 321; London Conference and, 109, 112; social security and, 248–49
Morgenthau, Henry, Sr., 128, 184–85, 320–21
Morris, Lloyd, 480
Morse, Ella, 199, 201, 203, 252
Moskowitz, Belle, 423
Mountaineer Craftsmen’s Cooperative Association, 137
Muir, John, 206, 207, 207n
Munich Conference (1938), 541–42, 544, 545
Muñoz Marín, Luis, 172
Murphy, Frank, 429, 456, 555
Murray, Pauli, 90, 565
Mussolini, Benito, 284–87, 310, 325, 336, 401, 443, 454, 455, 467, 489–90, 492, 541, 544, 558, 559
“My Day” (ER’s column), 290, 302, 313–14, 360, 381–82, 450, 516
“My House” (Eleanor Roosevelt), 478
“My Job” (Eleanor Roosevelt), 478
Nation, 113, 226, 227, 427
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), 4, 67, 153, 160, 243–7, 248, 254, 279, 288, 314, 345, 379, 380, 442, 460–61, 568n; lynching and, 176–81, 188, 226, 243–46, 279, 511
National Association of Colored Women, 159, 160
National Catholic Welfare Conference, 521–22
National Child Labor Law, 63–64
National Conference on Fundamental Problems in the Education of Negroes, 185–87
National Consumers League (NCL), 62, 64–65, 77, 86, 257, 266, 515
National Council of Jews and Christians, 491
National Council of Negro Women, 4, 160, 513
National Home Library Foundation, 148–19
National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA), 76, 134, 265, 266
National Labor Relations Act (Wagner Act) (1935), 266, 424, 427, 460, 564
National Labor Relations Board, 258, 266, 427
National Negro Congress, 568n, 575
National Public Housing Conference, 156, 293, 420
National Recovery Administration (NRA), 65, 76–80, 85, 124, 231, 247, 265, 266, 477; Consumer Advisory Board of, 68, 79; Labor Advisory
Board of, 77–78
National Training School for Girls, 358–59, 421–22
National Youth Administration (NYA), 160, 268–72, 278–79, 357–58, 412, 466, 477, 495, 496, 497, 511–12, 565, 566
Native Americans, 121, 155, 163, 184, 212
Navy, U.S., 39, 103n, 105, 113, 124, 169, 492
Neal, Claude, 243, 256
Negrin, Juan, 455
Negro in Harlem, The (Frazier), 256–57
Nelson, Billy, 205–6
Nesbitt, Henrietta, 2–3, 35, 44, 51–59
Nesbitt, Henry, 52, 54
Neumann, William, 124
Neutrality Act of 1935, 443
Neutrality Act of 1937, 443, 506; Asia theater and, 471–72
New Deal, 1, 3, 4, 7, 437, 460, 462, 476–77, 497, 501, 513, 538, 566; arts in, 17–18, 162–63, 267-Í8, 335–38; fiscal conservatism and, 7, 11, 45, 70–74, 76; limitations of, 50, 218–19; second, launching of, 233–35, 247; for U.S. territories, 169–74; for women, 3, 31, 44, 60, 61, 65, 68, 70–74, 83–91, 261–62, 266, 270–72, 275–78, 282; see also specific agencies, legislation, and programs
Newman, Pauline, 77, 266, 347
New Republic, 141, 328, 427
Newspaper Guild, 394, 424, 463
New York Daily News, 35, 480
New Yorker, 244, 262
New York Herald Tribune, 25, 75, 97, 105, 169, 473, 480, 563
New York Herald Tribune Magazine, 97–98
New York Metropolitan Opera, 25
New York State, 77, 449, 552; Temporary Emergency Relief Administration in (TERA), 84, 88–89
New York Times, 18, 44, 50, 61, 73, 89, 105, 124, 128, 180, 205n, 244, 246, 267, 322n, 326, 333, 367, 382, 445, 447, 449, 452, 459, 480, 484, 508, 516, 545n, 574; election of 1934 and, 222, 224; London Conference and, 110, 112
Nicaragua, 173–74, 517, 561
Nicholson, Evelyn Riley, 123
Nicolson, Harold, 491, 500, 502–3, 540n
Noonan, Frederick J, 458, 459
Norris, George, 81
North American Review, 480
Nuremberg Trials, 542
Nye, Gerald P., 401, 444, 504
Nye Committee, 494
Observer (London), 323–24
O’Day, Caroline, 2, 10, 27, 221–25, 228, 259, 264, 344, 368, 373, 440–42, 525
O’Donnell, John, 461
Ogilvie-Forbes, George, 559
Ohm, Karl, 498–99
Olympic Games, 332–33
Omlie, Phoebe, 346, 377
“On Better Housing Among. Negroes” (conference), 348, 349
One Third of a Nation (WPA), 487
Ordway, Margaret, 271–72
O’Reilly, Leonora, 62
Orleck, Annelise, 347
Osthagen, Henry, 362, 479, 533–34
Oumansky, Constantine, 544
Ovington, Mary White, 379
Owen, Ruth Bryan (Rohde), 29, 68–69, 377–78, 488
Owens, Jesse, 333 pacifism, peace movement, 5, 6–7, 49, 60, 101, 111, 113, 238–39, 330–31, 341–42, 488, 492–95, 501; anti-Semitism and, 118–19
Padmore, George, 286
Palestine, 557, 562
Palmer, A. Mitchell, 497–98
Panama, 517, 561
Panay incident, 481–82
Papen, Franz von, 100, 310
Paraguay, 409, 561
Parks, Lillian Rogers, 39, 57, 58
Parrish, Henry, 545
Parrish, Susie, 121, 200, 220, 255
Patterson, Eleanor (Cissy), 29, 481
Patterson, Joe, 480
Patton, George, 45
Pearson, Drew, 170
Pearson, Paul, 169–70
Peck, Mary Hulbert, 18
Pennybacker, Anna, 119, 435
Pepper, Claude, 412, 516, 567n
Perkins, Frances, 62, 67–68, 73, 83, 85, 158, 166, 231, 257, 258, 269, 307, 344, 356, 367, 383, 456, 458, 498–99, 528–29; as secretary of labor, 15, 77, 21 On, 425, 429; social security and, 234, 235, 248–49
Peterson, Leroy, 149
Phillips, Mrs. N. Taylor, 373
Phillips, William, 307, 312, 558
Phillips-Jones Corporation, 149–50
Pickens, William, 461
Pickett, Clarence, 129, 130, 226, 262, 273, 309–12, 481, 543; Arthurdale and, 131, 134, 135, 140, 141, 153, 204–5
Pickett, Lilly, 309–12
Pinchot, Leila, 464
Pinchot, Rosamond, 21
“Plight of the Negro Voter, The” (Villard), 226–27
Popular Front, 454, 455
Porter, Polly, 273, 432
Powell, Adam Clayton, Jr., 256
Preston, Evelyn, 426
Progressive Party, 61
Public Works Administration (PWA), 77,
Public Works Administration (PWA) 84, 158–59, 163, 188, 247, 293, 460–61, 511
Puerto Rico, 167–75
Pure Food and Drug Act (1906), 83, 145
Putnam, George Palmer, 50, 459
Quakers, 19, 45, 170, 453; see also American Friends Service Committee
Randolph, Jennings, 140
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, 127–28; 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 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 Valley 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
Vassar Pact, 523
Versailles, Treaty of (1919), 10, 49, 60, 100, 108, 125, 237, 238, 306, 308, 311, 492, 541, 548
veterans, 44–46, 70, 73t 264
Vidal, Eugene, 346
Villard, Oswald Garrison, 113, 226–27
Virgin Islands, U.S., 167, 169–71, 173, 174, 177, 246 Volkischer Beobachter, 128
Wachman, Maria Meyer, 304–5 wages, 515–16; CWA, 84–85, 87–88, 164, 165, 171; discrimination in, 78, 85, 87–88, 90, 357, 457; equal, 61, 77–78, 87–88, 339; minimum, 61, 63, 77–78, 80, 87–88, 149, 171, 220, 345, 425, 515
Wagner, Robert, 77, 84, 177–78, 220, 258, 266, 293, 314, 420, 440, 443, 460, 516, 555
Wagner-Steagall bill, 462
Wald, Lillian, 3, 61, 84, 85, 124, 128, 268, 304, 322n, 342, 383, 514; election of 1936 and, 381–82; in peace movement, 5, 49, 111, 113, 122; social security and, 234, 235, 247
Walker, Géraldine, 292
Wallace, Henry, 15, 81, 82, 146, 412
Walsh, Thomas J., 15n, 28
Warburg, James, 112
War Department, U.S., 279, 411
Wardwell, Allan, 453
War Industries Board, 77, 80, 317
Warm Springs, Ga., 67, 72, 137, 154–55, 191, 195, 229, 436, 496, 553–54
“Washington, Battle of” (1932), 45
Washington, D.C., 2, 9, 16–20; slums in, 156–58
Washington, George, 134, 238
Washington Committee on Housing, 157, 348–49
Watkins, T. H., 288
Watson, Edwin M. (Pa), 297–98, 416
Weaver, Robert, 348
Welles, Sumner, 305, 471, 488, 499, 506, 550, 561–62
Wells, Ida B., 178, 179
West, J. B., 35–36
Wheeler, Burton, 212, 461
Wheeler-Lea Act (1938), 84n
Whelan, Grover, 390, 392
When You Grow Up to Vote (Eleanor Roosevelt), 21
While England Slept (Churchill), 517–18
White, Hugh, 442
White, Walter, 4, 153, 161, 183, 226, 279, 288, 293, 345, 442–43, 460; antilynching legislation and, 176–81, 188, 243–46, 279, 440; Early’s protest against, 279–80; Virgin Islands and, 173, 177, 246
White, William Allen, 174
White House: budget cuts in, 57–58; Christmas at, 197–98; cultural events at, 121, 293; democracy and, 31, 32, 57, 347, 358; as divided home, 1, 30, 37–38; ER’s official duties in, 9, 31–32, 35–36, 40, 51; ER’s overhauling of, 31–34; ER’s staff in, 38–40; food in, 2, 36, 44, 51–59, 438; Hopkins as resident of, 476, 477; integration of, 161, 293, 358; Lincoln bedroom in, 33, 347; Monroe Room in, 24, 33; Red Room in, 40, 65; swimming pool at, 34–35
White House Conference on Camps for Unemployed Women (1934), 90
White House Conference on the Emergency Needs of Women (1933), 86
white supremacy, 4, 6, 162–64, 177, 183, 345, 439–40
White Top Mountain Music Festival, 120–21
Whitney, Daisy, 224
Why Wars Must Cease, 238–39
Wilkins, Roy, 246–47
Williams, Aubrey, 4, 153–54, 186, 282, 383, 496, 509, 511, 512, 528n, 550, 565, 566, 568; National Youth Administration and, 269–72, 278–79, 280, 412, 477
Williams, Charl Ormond, 339
Williams, Russell, 124–25
Wilmerding, Helen Cutting, 15
Wilson, Ellen Axson, 17–18, 38, 156, 158
Wilson, Hugh, 501, 521, 557
Wilson, M. L., 134, 135, 140, 148
Wilson, Woodrow, 9, 17, 18, 60, 61, 68, 103, 308, 320
Winant, John, 220, 282
Wirt, William A., 143–44
Wise, Louise, 321–22
Wise, Rabbi Stephen, 321
Woman’s Home Companion, 115, 330 Women, The (Luce), 449–50
“Women Bosses” (Eleanor Roosevelt), 222, 277
Women on the Breadlines (Le Sueur), 86
Women’s Democratic Committee, 569
Women’s Democratic Digest, 529
Women’s Democratic News (WDN), 2, 10, 71, 92, 102–3, 131–32, 204, 241, 290, 306n, 381–82
Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), 5, 49, 122, 180, 257, 259, 312, 331, 471–72
Women’s National Press Club, 46–47, 552
women’s social reform network, 43–44, 60–69, 234
Women’s TVade Union League (WTUL), 43–44, 62, 65, 67, 77, 86, 89, 220, 266, 347, 467, 482
“Women’s Ways in Politics” (Howe), 351–52
Woodin, William, 15n, 107, 109, 307
Woodward, Ellen Sullivan, 86–88, 244–45, 257, 258, 261–62, 275–76, 463, 550
Woolf, Leonard, 541
Woolf, Virginia, 540
WooUey, Mary, 239, 342
Works Progress Administration (WPA), 87, 154, 182, 247, 251, 257, 258, 262, 269, 282, 383, 396, 407–8, 422, 477, 495, 496, 497, 511, 513, 566; arts projects of, 267–68, 335–38, 422; Hick’s work for, 261, 273, 296–97, 298–99, 331, 359–0, 374, 390–91, 396; theater productions of, 448–49, 487; women’s role in, 261–62, 275–76; Workers’ Education Division of, 356–58
World Court, 5, 11, 48, 60, 97, 98, 114, 235–42, 257, 305–6, 444, 464, 472, 492, 493
World War 1, 10, 26, 60, 77, 80, 100, 125, 156, 238, 556; debts from, 49, 101–2, 108, 110, 306; U.S. veterans of, 44–46, 70, 73, 264
World Youth Congress, 511, 520, 521–24, 531
Wright-Patman bill, 44
Yosemite National Park, 204–8
You Learn by Living (Eleanor Roosevelt), 3, 38
Youngbar, Alice, 328–29 youth movement, 227–28, 509, 511–14, 520
Yugoslavia, 488
YWCA.266, 425
Zangara, Joseph, 27–28
Zionism, 321, 327