Eleanor and Franklin (165 page)

9
.
New York Times,
April 4, 1933.

10
. Interview with Emma Bugbee.

11
.
Washington Star,
March 30, 1933.

12
. Furman, p. 194.

13
.
New York Herald Tribune,
April 25, 1933.

14
. Interview with Emma Bugbee.

15
. Letter from Martha Strayer to Eleanor Roosevelt, undated.

16
.
Ibid.

17
.
New York Times,
April 24, 1933; the
New York Herald Tribune,
April 24, 1933.

18
. Letter from Helen Wilmerding to Eleanor Roosevelt, June 14, 1933, and Eleanor Roosevelt's reply, June 23, 1933.

19
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Franklin D. Roosevelt, Feb. 15, 1933.

20
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Herman Milgrim, Sept. 28, 1933, and Milgrim's reply, Oct. 9, 1933.

21
.
New York Herald Tribune
, March 20, 1933.

22
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Mrs. Archibald Hopkins, May 19, 1933.

23
. Rollins,
Roosevelt and Howe,
cited (Ch. 26), pp. 291, 386–88.

24
. Letter from Josephus Daniels to Eleanor Roosevelt, May 26, 1933.

25
.
New York Times,
March 16, 1933.

26
. Letter from Amelia Earhart to Eleanor Roosevelt, Nov. 20, 1933; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Amelia Earhart, Dec. 4, 1933.

27
. Letter from Amon G. Carter to Eleanor Roosevelt, June 25, 1933, enclosing an editorial from the
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
“All American Woman.”

28
. Will Rogers, letter to the
New York Times,
June 7, 1933.

29
. Parsons,
Perchance Some Day
, cited (Ch. 1), p. 340.

30
.
New York Herald Tribune,
April 24, 1933.

31
. Eleanor Roosevelt, article for the North American Newspaper Alliance, April 1, 1933; Hickok, p. 105.

32
. Eleanor Roosevelt, article for the North American Newspaper Alliance, April 28, 1933.

33
.
New York Times,
March 14, 1933.

34
.
Ibid.,
April 13, 1933.

35
. Eleanor Roosevelt, radio broadcast, March 15, 1935.

36
. Letter from Merritt Bond to Eleanor Roosevelt, April 8, 1933.

37
.
New York Times,
March 20, 1933.

38
. Letter from Marvin McIntyre to Eleanor Roosevelt, Dec. 26, 1933.

39
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Aron Mathieu, May 9, 1933.

40
. Mary Beard, review of Eleanor Roosevelt's
It's Up to the Women
(New York, 1933; hereafter referred to as IUTTW), in the
New York Herald Tribune Books,
Nov. 14, 1933.

41
. Eleanor Roosevelt, radio broadcast, 1934.

42
. Eleanor Roosevelt, speech, Massena, New York, May 5, 1933.

43
. Eleanor Roosevelt, radio broadcast, 1934.

44
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Ruth Morgan, Dec. 4, 1933.

45
. Furman, p. 167.

46
. Letter from Mrs. John Nance Garner to Eleanor Roosevelt, Sept. 8, 1933, and Eleanor Roosevelt's reply, Oct. 7, 1933.

47
. Interview with Mrs. Amyas Ames.

48
. E. Roosevelt,
TIR,
pp. 350–51.

49
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Mrs. F. Hirst, Nov. 7, 1933.

50
.
Washington
(D.C.)
Herald,
April 5, 1933.

36. THE POLITICS OF CONSCIENCE

1
. E. Roosevelt,
IUTTW,
cited (Ch. 35).

2
.
Ibid.,
p. 204.

3
.
Ibid.,
p. 174.

4
.
Ibid.,
pp. 246, 247.

5
. Mary Beard, in the
New York Herald Tribune Books,
cited (Ch. 35).

6
. E. Roosevelt,
IUTTW,
p. 260.

7
. Eleanor Roosevelt, speech, Baltimore, Oct. 13, 1933, and speech to the Affiliated Schools for Workers, Oct. 24, 1933.

8
. Eleanor Roosevelt, “What I Hope to Leave behind Me,”
Pictorial Review,
April, 1933.

9
. Eleanor Roosevelt, undated speech drafted in late 1932 or early 1933.

10
. E. Roosevelt, “What I Hope to Leave behind Me,”
o
p. cit.

11
. Eleanor Roosevelt, in the
Democratic News,
Dec., 1932.

12
. E. Roosevelt, speech, Baltimore, Oct. 13, 1933.

13
. William James,
The Varieties of Religious Experience
(New York, Modern Library, 1902), p. 257.

14
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Eliza Keates Young, Oct. 17, 1933. On Eleanor Roosevelt's help to consumer groups, see also her letter to Elinor Herrick, Aug. 30, 1933; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Hugh Johnson, Jan. 17, 1934; letter from Mary Rumsey to Eleanor Roosevelt, Oct. 30, 1934; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Louis Howe, Dec. 13, 1933. On her role in starting the food-stamp plan, see Pearson and Allen, “Washington Merry-Go-Round-of-the-Air.” Nov. 26, 1935; Emma Bugbee, in the
New York Herald Tribune,
March 1, 1936; Kathleen McLaughlin, in the
New York Times,
July 5, 1936.

15
. Ruby Black, in
Editor and Publisher,
Feb. 10, 1934.

16
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Eliza Keates Young, Oct. 17, 1933.

17
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Lady Florence Willert, Dec. 4, 1933.

18
.
New York Times,
Nov. 9, 1933; International News Service, Nov. 10, 1933.

19
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to David Gaines, Nov. 15, 1933.

20
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Mrs. Alderman, Dec. 5, 1933.

21
.
New York Times,
Oct. 13, 1933.

22
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Mr. Roberts, Oct. 31, 1933.

23
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Izetta Jewel Miller, May 18, 1934; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Mrs. Martin, Oct. 9, 1934.

24
. A distinction drawn by Northrup Frye in “Varieties of Literary Utopias,”
Utopias and Utopian Thought,
ed. Frank E. Manuel (Boston, 1967), p. 31.

25
. Letter from Upton Sinclair to Eleanor Roosevelt, Oct. 21, 1933.

26
.
Ibid.,
Oct. 31, 1933.

27
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Upton Sinclair, Jan. 26, 1934.

28
. Letter from Molly Dewson to Eleanor Roosevelt, April 27, 1933.

29
. Ruby Black, in
Editor and Publisher,
Feb. 10, 1934.

30
. Furman,
Washington By-Line,
cited (Ch. 35), p. 230.

31
. Letter from Judge Florence E. Allen to Eleanor Roosevelt, May 1, 1933.

32
. Letter from Molly Dewson to Eleanor Roosevelt, April 29, 1933.

33
. Cordell Hull,
Memoirs,
2 vols. (New York, 1948), p. 183.

34
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Harold L. Ickes, Dec. 13, 1933, and Ickes' reply, Dec. 18, 1933.

35
. E. Roosevelt,
IUTTW,
p. 213.

36
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to James Farley, undated.

37
. E. Roosevelt,
IUTTW,
p. 199.

38
. Eleanor Roosevelt, speech, March 24, 1933.

39
. E. Roosevelt,
IUTTW,
p. 200.

40
. Louis Howe, draft of an article, “Women's Ways in Politics,”
Woman's Home Companion,
July, 1935.

41
. Malvina Thompson Scheider, in conversation with the author.

42
. Eleanor Roosevelt, radio broadcast, Sept. 5, 1934.

43
. Letter from Carrie Chapman Catt to Eleanor Roosevelt, Aug. 15, 1933.

44
. E. Roosevelt,
IUTTW,
pp. 204 and 178 respectively.

45
. S. J. Woolf, in the
New York Times,
May 24, 1939.

46
. James, pp. 349–50.

37. MRS. ROOSEVELT'S “BABY”—ARTHURDALE

1
. Hickok,
Reluctant First Lady,
cited (Ch. 23), p. 136.

2
. Lorena Hickok, reports to Harry Hopkins, in FDRL.

3
. Letter from Alice Davis to Eleanor Roosevelt, Aug., 1933.

4
. Letters from Eleanor Roosevelt to Alice Davis, Aug. 24, 1933, and Nov. 7, 1933.

5
. Title II, Sect. 208, National Industrial Recovery Act.

6
.
New York Times,
Jan. 23, 1930.

7
. Letter from Franklin D. Roosevelt to George Norris, April 17, 1933.

8
. Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.,
The Coming of the New Deal,
vol. II of
The Age of Roosevelt
,
3 vols. (Boston, 1959), p. 365, and M. L. Wilson, Memoir, OHP.

9
.
New York Times,
Nov. 3, 1933.

10
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Harold L. Ickes, undated, but probably Aug. 23, 1933.

11
. Letter from Harold L. Ickes to Eleanor Roosevelt, Aug. 25, 1933.

12
. Wilson, OHP.

13
.
Ibid.;
letter from Leonard Elmhirst to Joseph P. Lash, Nov. 18, 1968.

14
. Wilson, OHP; Paul R. Conkin,
Tomorrow a New World
(Ithaca, N.Y., 1959), p. 102.

15
. Wilson, OHP.

16
. Letter from Clarence Pickett to Elizabeth Marsh, Aug. 24, 1933, cited by Holly Cowan, “Arthurdale,” master's thesis submitted to Columbia University History Dept., 1968.

17
. Louis Howe, WNBC broadcast, Aug. 20, 1933.

18
. Clarence Pickett,
For More Than Bread
(New York, 1953), p. 44.

19
. Wilson, OHP.

20
. Letter from Alice Davis to Eleanor Roosevelt, Oct. 14, 1933.

21
. Pickett, p. 46.

22
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to M. L. Wilson, Nov. 17, 1933.

23
. Letter from Dorothy Elmhirst to Eleanor Roosevelt, Sept. 20, 1933.

24
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Henry Goddard Leach, Nov. 20, 1933.

25
. Letter from Upton Sinclair to Eleanor Roosevelt, Jan. 31, 1934, and Eleanor Roosevelt's reply, Feb. 6, 1934.

26
.
New York Times,
Feb. 21, 1934.

27
. Roosevelt File, Jan. 20, 1934; letter from Silliman Evans to Kenneth Mckellar, Feb. 17, 1934.

28
. Eleanor Roosevelt, statement to the press, April 24, 1934.

29
. Letter from Bernard Baruch to Eleanor Roosevelt, May 2, 1934.

30
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Bernard Baruch, June 13, 1934.

31
.
Ickes, Secret Diary,
cited (Ch. 24), I, p. 335; Conkin, p. 206.

32
. Eleanor Roosevelt, speech, undated, Group XXXVI, Roosevelt papers; Pickett, p. 44.

33
.
New York Times,
July 29, 1934.

34
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Bernard Baruch, June 13, 1934.

35
. Letter from Louis Howe to Charles F. Pynchon, July 24, 1934, and Pynchon's reply, July 26, 1934.

36
.
New York Times,
Oct. 13, 1933.

37
. Wilson, OHP.

38
.
Ibid.

39
. Associated Press, Jan. 23, 1935.

40
. Wilson, OHP.

41
. Conkin, p. 121.

42
.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch,
Nov. 14, 1934.

43
. Ickes, I, p. 162.

44
.
Ibid.,
p. 152.

45
. Wesley Stout, “The New Homesteaders,”
Saturday Evening Post,
Aug. 4, 1934.

46
. Letter from Martha Strayer to Eleanor Roosevelt, Aug. 20, 1934.

47
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Martha Strayer, Aug. 27, 1934.

48
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Harold L. Ickes, Sept. 8, 1934.

49
. Harold M. Ware and Webster Powell, “Planning for Permanent Poverty,”
Harper's,
April, 1935.

50
. Ickes, I, p. 207.

51
.
Ibid.,
pp. 218–19.

52
.
Ibid.,
p. 227.

53
. Will Alexander, OHP; Conkin, p. 171.

54
. Letter from Bernard Baruch to Eleanor Roosevelt, Dec. 4, 1934.

55
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Bernard Baruch, July 14, 1934.

56
. Letter from Bernard Baruch to Eleanor Roosevelt, Dec. 6, 1934.

57
.
Ibid
., Jan. 28, 1935.

58
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Lady Florence Willert, April 28, 1934.

59
. Letter from Alice Davis to Eleanor Roosevelt, Oct. 15, 1934.

60
. Elsie Clapp,
Community Schools in Action
(New York, 1939) and
The Use of Resources in Education
(New York, 1952); E. Roosevelt, “My Day,” cited (Ch. 8), Aug. 2, 1937.

61
. Letter from Bernard Baruch to Eleanor Roosevelt, April 20, 1935.

62
. Letter from Clarence Pickett to Eleanor Roosevelt, Sept. 21, 1934.

63
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Harold L. Ickes, June 13, 1934.

64
. Ickes, I, pp. 248–60;
ibid
., p. 285.

65
. This episode is described by Tugwell, OHP memoir.

66
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Rexford Tugwell, May 3, 1934.

67
.
Ibid
., June 3, 1935, and Tugwell's reply, June 3, 1935.

68
. Rexford G. Tugwell, Minutes of the conference at Buck Hills Falls.