Eleanor Roosevelt

by Blanche Wiesen Cook

  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