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by Blanche Wiesen Cook


  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, Caroli
ne, 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

 

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