The First Lady of Radio (32 page)

4
. Undated letter to ER. ER Papers, box 12.

5
. Letter to ER, December 14, 1932. ER Papers, box 12.

6
. Telegram to ER, December 17, 1932. ER Papers, box 12.

7
. ER to W.E. Graves, January 25, 1934. ER Papers, box 12.

8
. Susan Ware,
Holding Their Own: American Women in the 1930s
(New York: Twayne Publishers, 1982), 27.

9
. Eleanor Roosevelt,
This I Remember
(New York: Harper and Brothers, 1949), 13.

10
. Eleanor Roosevelt, “The Girl of Today,” radio script, December 9, 1932, ER Papers, box 1397.

5. “Negro Education”

1
. Allida M. Black,
Casting Her Own Shadow: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Shaping of Postwaar Liberalism
(New York: Columbia University Press, 1996), 37.

2
. Blanche Wiesen Cook,
Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume Two 1933–1938
(New York: Penguin Books, 1999), 185.

6. “When Will a Woman Become President of the US?”

1
. Dick Templeton, “Summer Radio—First Lady On Air for $3,000,”
The Microphone
, May 19, 1934.

9. “Peace Through Education”

1
. Allida M. Black,
Casting Her Own Shadow: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Shaping of Postwar Liberalism
(New York: Columbia University Press, 1996), 138.

2
. Letter to ER, December 25, 1934. ER Papers, box 449.

10. “World Court Broadcast”

1
. “Coughlin Renews World Court Fight,”
The New York Times, January
28, 1935.

2
. “First Lady Urges World Court Step,”
The New York Times, January
28, 1935.

11. “Making the Wheels Go 'Round in the White House”

1
. R. Calvert Hawes and Edyth Dixon, “Air Secrets of the President's Wife,”
Radio Guide
, November 16, 1935.

17. “Eleanor Roosevelt Interviewed on the Causes and Cures of War”

1
. Alida M. Black,
Casting Her Own Shadow: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Shaping of Postwar Liberalism
(New York: Columbia University Press, 1996), 137.

18. “Domestic Workers and Government Housing”

1
. Lynne Olson,
Those Angry Days: Roosevelt, Lindbergh, and America's Fight over World War II
(New York: Random House, 2013), 33.

2
. “First Lady's Week,”
Time,
April 15, 1940.

3
. Dorothy Dunbar Bromley, “The Future of Eleanor Roosevelt,”
Harper's
, January 1940.

4
. Letter to ER, June 20, 1940. ER Papers, ER Radio Listener Mail, box 5.

5
. Letter to ER, July 24, 1940. ER Papers, ER Radio Listener Mail, box 5.

24. “Address to the Democratic National Convention”

1
. Jean Edward Smith,
FDR
(New York: Random House, 2007), 459.

2
. Eleanor Roosevelt,
This I Remember
(New York: Harper and Brothers, 1949), 214.

25. “Shall We Arm Merchant Ships?”

1
. “Text of Lindbergh Address in Indiana,”
The Milwaukee Sentinel,
October 5, 1941.

2
. Maurine Beasley,
Eleanor Roosevelt: Transformative First Lady
(Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2010), 182.

3
. ER quoted in Allida M. Black,
Casting Her Own Shadow: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Shaping of Postwar Liberalism
(New York: Columbia University Press, 1996), 143.

4
. Beasley,
Transformative First Lady,
193.

29. “Pearl Harbor Attack”

1
. “Radio First to Nation with News of Jap Attack,”
PM
, December 8, 1941.

2
. James Cannon, “Corporal Jimmy Cannon Says,”
PM
, December 8, 1941.

34. “Broadcast from Liverpool”

1
. James P. Lash,
Eleanor and Franklin: The Story of Their Relationship Based on Eleanor Roosevelt's Private Papers
(New York: Norton, 1971), 657.

2
. “Mrs. Roosevelt's Postscript,”
The Times,
London, England, November 9, 1942.

3
. Lash,
Eleanor and Franklin,
668.

About the Author

Stephen Drury Smith
is the executive editor and host of American RadioWorks® (ARW), the acclaimed national documentary series from American Public Media®. Smith and ARW have been awarded the DuPont-Columbia University Gold and Silver Batons. He has covered a wide range of international and domestic issues, including human rights, science and health, education, race relations, and American history. He is a co-editor (with Catherine Ellis) of
Say It Plain: A Century of Great African American Speeches
and
Say It Loud: Great Speeches on Civil Rights and African American Identity
and (with Mary Marshall Clark, Peter Bearman, and Catherine Ellis) of
After the Fall: New Yorkers Remember September 2001 and the Years That Followed,
all published by The New Press. He lives in St. Paul, Minnesota, and Boston, Massachusetts.

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