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
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