Eleanor and Franklin (170 page)

8
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Franklin D. Roosevelt, Sept. 21, 1938.

9
. Thomas Mann,
The Coming Victory of Democracy
(New York, 1938); E. Roosevelt, “My Day,” Sept. 23, 1938.

10
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Marguerite Few, Sept. 28, 1938.

11
. E. Roosevelt, “My Day,” Sept. 28, 1938.

12
.
Ibid
., Sept. 30, 1938.

13
.
Ibid
., Oct. 7, 1938; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Helen Gifford, Oct. 14, 1938.

14
. Letter from Mrs. Philip Vaughn (“Bennett”) to Eleanor Roosevelt, Dec. 14, 1938, and Eleanor Roosevelt's reply, Jan. 4, 1939.

15
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Franklin D. Roosevelt, Oct. 21, 1938.

16
. Letter from the Grand Duchess Marie to Eleanor Roosevelt, April, 1934; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to the Grand Duchess Marie, July 2, 1934.

17
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Judge Justine Polier, Jan. 4, 1939.

18
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Franklin D. Roosevelt, Feb. 22, 1939; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Judge Justine Polier, Feb. 28, 1939.

19
. Franklin D. Roosevelt, memorandum, June 2, 1939; E. Roosevelt, speech to the Conference on the Cause and Cure of War.

20
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Mrs. Clark, Aug. 22, 1938.

21
. Weldon Wallace, carbon copy of a story written for the
Baltimore Sun,
based on an interview with Eleanor Roosevelt which took place in 1954 on the subject of racial prejudice.

22
. Eleanor Roosevelt, “The Future of the Jews,”
Liberty,
Nov. 25, 1938, written in reply to an article on the same subject by H. G. Wells.

23
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Mrs. Paxton, Feb. 15, 1937.

24
. E. Roosevelt, “The Future of the Jews.”

25
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Dr. Hyman, Nov. 19, 1938.

26
. Letter from S. Margoshes to Eleanor Roosevelt, Dec. 24, 1938; letter from Malvina Thompson Scheider to S. Margoshes, Jan. 3, 1939.

27
. E. Roosevelt, “My Day,” Feb. 2, 1939.

28
.
New York Times,
Feb. 5 and 8, 1939, and March 1, 1939.

29
. E. Roosevelt, “My Day,” April 3, 1939.

30
.
Ibid.,
April 17, 1939.

31
. F. D. Roosevelt,
Letters,
cited (Ch. 10), IV, pp. 867–68; the Rev. Charles E. Coughlin's comment, in the
New York Times,
June 12, 1939.

32
. E. Roosevelt, “My Day,” May 28, 1939.

33
. Alexander, OHP; Ickes,
Secret Diary,
cited (Ch. 24), II, pp. 642–50.

34
.
New York Times,
June 10 and 14, 1939.

35
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Kathleen McLaughlin, June 29, 1939.

36
. Harry Hopkins, Papers, in FDRL.

37
. Helen Robinson, Diaries, cited (Ch. 16), June 11, 1939.

38
. E. Roosevelt, “I Remember Hyde Park,” cited (Ch. 10).

39
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Maude Gray, June 13, 1939.

40
. Ickes, II, pp. 642–50.

41
. E. Roosevelt, “My Day,” July 20, 1939.

42
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Mrs. Helen Hirst, July 25, 1939; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Martha Gellhorn, Aug. 8, 1939.

43
. Letter from Mrs. Philip Vaughn (“Bennett”) to Eleanor Roosevelt, Nov. 26, 1939, and Eleanor Roosevelt's reply, Dec. 15, 1939.

44
. E. Roosevelt, “My Day,” Aug. 24, 1939.

45
.
Ibid.,
Sept. 1, 1939; letter from Carola von Schaeffer-Bernstein to Eleanor Roosevelt, Aug. 19, 1939.

46
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Carola von Schaeffer-Bernstein, Sept. 6, 1939.

47
. Letter from Harry Hooker to Anna Roosevelt Boettiger, Sept. 11, 1939.

48
.
New York Times,
Sept. 16, 1939; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Maude Gray, Sept. 17, 1939.

49
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Mrs. Barmore, Oct. 3, 1939.

48. MRS. ROOSEVELT AND THE COMMUNISTS

1
. Letters from Alice Davis to Eleanor Roosevelt, Dec. 24, 1933, and Oct. 15, 1934; E. Roosevelt, “My Day,” cited (Ch. 8), Dec. 4, 1936.

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

3
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Miss Holden, Nov. 7, 1934.

4
. Letter from Lorena Hickok to Aubrey Williams, Aug., 1934; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Mrs. Goodspeed, Oct. 4, 1934.

5
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Mrs. Deane, June 7, 1934.

6
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Robert W. Bingham, Jan. 8, 1934, and Bingham's reply, Jan. 14, 1934; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Robert W. Bingham, Jan. 27, 1934.

7
. Elizabeth Dilling,
The Red Network
(published by the author, Milwaukee, 1934), p. 317; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Mrs. Trautman, July 1, 1936.

8
. Franklin D. Roosevelt, address to the Foreign Policy Association, Oct. 21, 1944, in F. D. Roosevelt,
Public Papers,
cited (Ch. 13), 1944, pp. 342–54.

9
. Caroline Phillips, Journals, Feb. 13, 1918; letters from Eleanor Roosevelt to Franklin D. Roosevelt, July 20, 1918, and Aug. 8, 1918.

10
. Letter from Esther Lape to Joseph P. Lash, Oct. 12, 1970; interview with Esther Lape.

11
. Krock,
Memoirs,
cited (Ch. 40), pp. 149–50.

12
. E. Roosevelt, “My Day,” Feb. 20, 1936.

13
. Letter from Sarah Millin to Eleanor Roosevelt, Nov. 17, 1936.

14
. Letter from Anna Louise Strong to Eleanor Roosevelt, Jan. 29, 1935.

15
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Anna Louise Strong, Feb. 13, 1935.

16
. Letter from Alice Davis to Eleanor Roosevelt, Dec. 11, 1936.

17
. Eleanor Roosevelt, speech at the Women's Faculty Club, Harvard University, Dec. 5, 1935; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Helen Reid, Nov. 8, 1938; E. Roosevelt, “My Day,” Sept. 26, 1938.

18
. Letter from Franklin D. Roosevelt to John Cudahy, April 16, 1938, may be found in F. D. Roosevelt,
Letters,
cited (Ch. 10), IV, p. 776.

19
. Letter from Anna Louise Strong to Eleanor Roosevelt, Feb 13, 1937, and Eleanor Roosevelt's reply, Feb. 24, 1937; letter from Mrs. Joseph Davies to Eleanor Roosevelt, April 12, 1938, and Eleanor Roosevelt's reply, April 27, 1938.

20
. Letters from Jerome Davis to Eleanor Roosevelt, March 1 and 26, 1938, and Eleanor Roosevelt's reply, April 15, 1938.

21
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Mrs. William B. Meloney, Nov. 28, 1938.

22
. Arthur Krock, in the
New York Times,
June 8 and 9, 1939; Frank Kent, in the
Baltimore Sun,
June 5, 1939.

23
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Mrs. Bernstein, June 21, 1939.

24
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Anna Louise Strong, Oct. 25, 1939.

49. FDR ADMINISTERS A SPANKING

1
. Letter from Paul Kellogg to Eleanor Roosevelt, July 5, 1939.

2
. The
New Republic,
quoted in Walter Goodman,
The Committee
(New York, 1968), p. 74.

3
.
New York Times,
Nov. 22, 1939.

4
. Goodman, p. 74.

5
. Lash Diaries, Nov. 29, 1939.

6
.
Ibid.

7
. E. Roosevelt, “My Day,” cited (Ch. 8), Dec. 1, 1939.

8
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Bernard Baruch, Dec. 2, 1939;
ibid.,
Dec. 12, 1939.

9
. Ickes,
Secret Diary,
cited (Ch. 24), II, p. 721.

10
. Lash Diaries, Jan. 16, 1940, and Feb. 9, 1940.

11
. Eleanor Roosevelt's marginal note on Aubrey Williams' letter to her, Nov. 11, 1939.

12
. Lash Diaries, Feb. 5, 1940.

13
. Letter from Harlan Miller to William Hassett, in the President's Secretary's File; E. M. Watson to William Hassett, Feb. 7, 1940.

14
. Letter from John W. Studebaker to William Hassett, Feb. 5, 1940, and letter from Aubrey Williams to William Hassett, Feb. 5, 1940. Both Hassett and Judge Samuel I. Rosenman, whom the author consulted when he was writing
Eleanor Roosevelt
, A Friend's Memoir
(cited, Ch. 2), said they thought the president had written this speech himself.

15
. Franklin D. Roosevelt, speech to the American Youth Congress, Feb. 10, 1940, in F. D. Roosevelt,
Public Papers,
cited (Ch. 13), 1940, pp. 87–94.

16
. “This Is Youth Speaking: Record of the National Citizenship Institute, Feb. 9–12, 1940,” American Youth Congress; Dewey L. Fleming, in the
Baltimore Sun,
Feb. 11 and 12, 1940.

17
. Lorena Hickok recalled the episode of Tommy's lacing into the Youth Congress leaders in a letter to Nannine Joseph, Feb. 5, 1954; E. Roosevelt,
TIR,
cited (Ch. 16), p. 201; Lash Diaries, March 6 and 29, 1940.

18
. Lash Diaries, Feb. 19, 1940, and May 9, 1940.

19
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Joseph P. Lash, March 8, 1940.

20
. Transcript 649 A, contained in Roosevelt press conferences, in FDRL, June 5, 1940.

21
. In 1936, Roosevelt told David Lilienthal of his hopes that the thoughtfulness of youth and women about economic issues would ensure the growth and consolidation of liberalism. See Lilienthal,
The Journals of David E. Lilienthal,
cited (Ch. 37), I, p. 64.

22
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Joseph Cadden, May 12, 1940.

23
. Betty Lindley and Thelma McKelvey, report, in Eleanor Roosevelt files, 1940.

24
. Letters from Eleanor Roosevelt to Mrs. Dorothy Backer, May 12 and 14, 1940; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to the Youth Congress leaders, undated.

25
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to the Youth Congress leaders, Dec. 16, 1940.

26
.
Ibid.,
Sept. 17, 1941.

27
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Polly Raymond, Oct. 22, 1941.

50. THE THIRD TERM

1
. James A. Farley,
Jim Farley's Story
(New York, 1948), p. 302.

2
. Bess Furman Armstrong, “Public Man's Wife,” the
New York Times Magazine,
May 14, 1939.

3
. Letter from Anne Shriber to Eleanor Roosevelt, Oct. 24, 1939.

4
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Lionberger Davis, Sept. 13, 1940; letter from Malvina Thompson Scheider to Emma Bugbee, Jan. 10, 1940.

5
. Eleanor Roosevelt,
The Moral Basis of Democracy
(New York, 1940), p. 69; Emma Bugbee, in the
New York Herald Tribune,
Jan. 21, 1940.

6
. Letter from William Allen White to Franklin D. Roosevelt, Dec. 22, 1939;
New York Times,
Dec. 20, 1939.

7
. E. Roosevelt,
My Days
, cited (Ch. 39), p. 108; newspaper clippings:
New York Times, New York Herald Tribune, New York Post, New York Sun, New York World Telegram,
and the
New York Daily News,
Jan. 21, 1937.

8
.
New York Times,
Jan. 15, 1938, and Nov. 6, 1939.

9
. Ickes,
Secret Diary,
cited (Ch. 24), II, p. 456; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Lady Florence Willert, Jan. 12, 1938; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Franklin D. Roosevelt, Aug. 12, 1938.

10
. Helen Robinson, Diaries, cited (Ch. 16), Oct. 8, 1938.

11
. Farley, p. 164; F. D. Roosevelt,
Public Papers,
cited (Ch. 13), 1939, p. 64.

12
. Letter from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Eleanor Roosevelt, May 13, 1939; letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to George Taylor, May 29, 1939.

13
. Ickes, II, p. 589.

14
. Sherwood,
Roosevelt and Hopkins,
cited (Ch. 43), p. 117.

15
. Ickes, II, p. 606.

16
. Memorandum from Eleanor Roosevelt to Franklin D. Roosevelt, undated; Lash Diaries, Feb. 4, 1940.

17
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Franklin D. Roosevelt, April 11, 1940.

18
. Lash Diaries, April 20, 1940.

19
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Maude Gray, May 17, 1940.

20
. Lash Diaries, June 3, 1940.

21
.
Ibid.,
Eleanor Roosevelt, speech to the Junior Chamber of Commerce, Jan. 2, 1941, in which she described this conversation with the president; United Press, Jan. 2, 1941.

22
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Maude Gray, June 9, 1940.

23
. E. Roosevelt, “My Day,” cited (Ch. 8), June 10, 1940.

24
. Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Isabella (Mrs. Harry) King, Aug. 22, 1940; Ickes, III, p. 207.

25
. E. Roosevelt,
TIR,
cited (Ch. 16), pp. 212–14; Emma Bugbee, in the
New York Herald Tribune,
July 19, 1940;
Fortune
survey, reported in the
New York World Telegram,
June 24, 1940.

26
. E. Roosevelt, “My Day,” June 27, 1940.

27
.
Ibid.,
July 17, 1940.

28
. The author was at Val-Kill the week of the convention and recorded his observations in his diary, July 15–19, 1940; Francis Biddle,
In Brief Authority
(New York, 1962), p. 140.

29
. Farley, pp. 283, 299; E. Roosevelt and Hickok,
Ladies of Courage,
cited (Ch. 30), pp. 281–84; E. Roosevelt,
TIR,
p. 215; E. Roosevelt, “My Day,” July 19 and 20, 1940; Lash Diaries, July 15–19, 1940.