INDEX

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

BabiesJust 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

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

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

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, 197–98, 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

Leigh, Colston, 393, 435, 436

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-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 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