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Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA), 172
Allahabad University, 332
Allenswood, 67–70, 140, 267
Alsop, Joseph, 313
American Association of the United Nations, 339
American Youth Congress, 207, 208, 215–18, 332
Anderson, Charles “Chief,” 271
Anderson, Judith, 375n
Anderson, Marian, 208–10
anti-Communism, 120, 134–35, 143, 206, 207, 210, 339, 340
anti-Semitism, 67, 207
Army Air Corps, U.S., 238–39
Arnold, Henry “Hap,” 271
Arthurdale, 4, 96–98, 113, 119, 183, 369n
Associated Press (AP), 1, 16, 19, 26, 81, 129
Hick’s career at, 42–43, 47, 60, 346
profiles of FDR and ER by, 26–27
Astor, Vincent, 36
Atlantic, Battle of the, 277
Atlantic Charter, 241–42
Atlantic Conference, 240, 241–42
Austria, Nazi annexation of, 200
bank closings, 1, 46
Bankhead, William, 226
Barkley, Alben, 222, 322–23
Barton, Bruce, 229
Baruch, Bernard, 97, 293
Battle Creek Journal, 57
Beasley, Maureen, 354–55
Beebe, Katherine, 42–43
Belgium, German invasion of, 218
Bethune, Mary McLeod, 172, 208
Birmingham, Ala., 207–8
Blackstone Hotel, Chicago, Ill., 222, 223
Bloom, Sol, 212
Board of Tax Appeals, U.S., 256
Boer War, 67
Boettiger, John, 14, 17–18, 84, 126, 145, 292, 336
Bolívar, Simón, 314
Bond, Pat, 357–58
Borah, William, 35
Bow, Clara, 160
Bowdle, S. Dak., 49, 52, 148
Brandeis, Louis, 287
Brice, Jeannette, 351
Bridge, Gardner, 26–27
Browning, Robert, 64
Bruenn, Howard, 293, 296, 302
Bugbee, Emma, 108–9
Bulge, Battle of the, 299
Bullitt, William, 201
Bulloch, Martha, 115
Bussy, Dorothy Strachey, 68–69
Bye, George, 169
Cairo Conference, 283
Calder, Alexander, 195
Call Her Savage (film), 160
Campobello Island, 12, 74, 78, 129–31, 147, 348
Canterbury Cathedral, bombing of, 270
Casablanca (film), 275
Casablanca Conference, 275–76, 277
Cather, Willa, 159, 160, 375n
Catt, Carrie Chapman, 197
Cermak, Anton, 37
Chamberlain, Neville, 200
Chaney, Mayris, 184, 253, 258
Chapin, Bill, 19
Chautauqua Women’s Club, 88
Chequers (Churchill country home), 268
Chicago, Ill., 174
1940 Democratic convention in, 221–22
Christmas Carol, A (Dickens), 157
Churchill, Clementine, 268
Churchill, Sarah, 285
Churchill, Winston, 306
at Atlantic Conference, 240, 241–42
at Casablanca Conference, 275–76, 277
colonialist mind-set of, 242, 252
ER and, 268–69
FDR’s relationship with, 252
and 1940 U.S. election, 229–30
North African invasion and, 264–65
Pearl Harbor attack and, 248
at Quebec Conference, 277
at Tehran Conference, 277, 285
in White House meeting with FDR, 248–49, 251–52
at Yalta Conference, 299, 343
CIO, 207
Citizenship Institute, 215–16
Civilian Conservation Corps, 184
civil rights, 17, 321–22
Civil Works Administration (CWA), 106, 117, 135
Claff, Julian, 317
Claff, Ruby Hickok, 52, 317, 353
Clapper, Raymond, 267
coal miners, 4, 94–99, 143–44
Communism, Communists, 217, 242
see also anti-Communism
Congress, U.S., 114, 119, 198
see also House of Representatives, U.S.
Cook, Blanche Wiesen, 6, 358
Cook, Nancy, 30, 75–76, 77, 118–19, 134, 158, 159
carpentry as love of, 19, 75, 77
ER’s break with, 184–89, 207
ER’s friendship with, 19, 30–31, 44, 75–79, 131, 146–47, 182–84, 345
political activism of, 75
Coolidge, Grace, 156
Corr, Maureen, 336, 344
Costello, Patsy, 357–58
Coward, Noël, 275
Crim, Howard, 277
Cucolo, Joseph, 335
Curnan, Archy “Tubby,” 335, 345
Czechoslovakia, 200–201
Daladier, Édouard, 200
Dalí, Salvador, 195
Dall, Curtis, 17, 84, 126, 336
Dana, Bill, 179, 181
Dana, Ella, 179–80, 181, 335
Dana, Paul A., 60–61
Daniels, Josephus, 27
Danilevsky, Nadia, 94
Daughters of the American Revolution, 119, 208–9
Davidson, Jo, 160, 195
Davis, Alice, 94
Davis, Bette, 262–63
“Degenerates of Greenwich Village,” 160
Delano, Laura, 260, 296, 301, 303
Democratic Digest, 232, 235–36, 261–63, 283, 300–301, 311
Democratic National Committee, 42, 214–15
Hick as publicist for, 215, 233–34
Democratic National Committee, Women’s Division, 294
Dewson as director of, 232–33, 254, 256, 300
ER and, 232–33, 339
Hick as executive secretary of, 231–32, 233–34, 235–36, 239, 253–54, 262–64, 283, 289, 291
Hick’s resignation from, 300–301
Tillett as director of, 234, 254, 261, 262, 286, 289–90, 300
Democratic National Conventions:
of 1932, 19
of 1940, 221–27, 234–35
of 1944, 289–90
of 1948, 321–23
Dempsey, Jack, 199
Denmark, German invasion of, 218
Dewey, Thomas E., 290, 294
Dewson, Molly, 86, 159, 224, 305, 339, 348
as Democratic Women’s Division director, 232–33, 254, 256, 300
Dickens, Charles, 157
Dickerman, Marion, 77, 118–19, 134, 153, 158, 159
ER’s break with, 184–89, 207
ER’s friendship with, 19, 30–31, 44, 75–79, 146, 182–84, 345
political activism of, 75–76
Dickinson, Ella Morse:
ER and Hick’s visit with, 124–25, 126
Hick’s love affair with, 39, 41–42, 60, 100, 120, 124–25, 175
Dickinson, Ray, 124–25
Dies, Martin, 191, 210, 211
Dillinger, John, 129
Dillon, Charlie, 59
Dodge, Mabel, 160
Dominion News, 95
Douglas, Helen Gahagan, 6, 163, 262–63, 315, 341–42, 350, 351, 363n
Hick and, 264
and 1944 Democratic Convention, 290
in 1944 election, 294
political career of, 263–64, 294
Douglas, Lewis, 117, 133
Douglas, Melvyn, 253, 262–63, 351
Douglas, William O., 289, 322
Dreyfusards, 67
Dulles, John Foster, 315
Dunkirk, British evacuation of, 218
Earhart, Amelia, 108
Earle, George, 197
Early, Steve, 302, 304
Eastern Europe, Soviet occupation of, 299–300
Einstein, Albert, 196
Eisenhower, Dwight David, 265, 269, 288, 333, 349
“Eleanor Roosevelt . . . First Lady” (Hickok), 311
Eleanor Roosevelt School, 115
elections, U.S.:
of 1920, 27
of 1928, 15, 42
of 1932, 1, 11–12, 13, 30, 32, 133, 232
of 1934, 133, 136
of 1936, 149–51, 171, 232
of 1938, 197
of 1940, 218–19, 221–30
of 1942, 262–64
of 1944, 288–89, 293–94
of 1948, 325
of 1952, 332–33
of 1960, 347–48
Elizabeth, Queen Consort of England, 188, 193, 205–6, 268, 306
Emerson, Faye, 312
Faber, Doris, 5–6
Fairbanks, Douglas, Jr., 262–63
Fair Labor Standards Act, 254–55, 256
Fala (FDR’s dog), 154, 248, 251, 294
Farley, Jim, 221–26, 232
Farrar, Geraldine, 58
Fascism, 206, 207, 242
FBI, Lash surveilled by, 278–79
Federal Emergency Relief Administration, 142
Federal Theatre Project, 210
feminism, 67, 72–73, 88–89, 171
Ferber, Edna, 57–58
Ferguson, Isabella Greenway, 13–14
Ferguson, Robert, 13–14
Finland, Soviet war with, 216
Fish, Hamilton, 229
Fisk University, 114
Flanigan, Howard A., 214–15
Florida, 116
Ford Motor Company, 261
France, 67, 198, 218
France, Vichy, 246
Franco, Francisco, 198, 330
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Bridge, 348
Furman, Bess, 61, 107, 108, 323
Galápagos, 190
Garry, Thomas F., 223
Gaspé Peninsula, 81, 86
Gellhorn, Martha, 141–43, 153–54, 164, 337, 375n
and Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, 200–201
as Spanish Civil War correspondent, 198, 200
Geneva, Human Rights conference in, 317, 320
Gennerich, Gus, 37
George VI, King of England, 188, 193, 205–6, 268, 306
Georgia, 112–13, 116
Germany, Nazi, 190, 196
Austria annexed by, 200
Belgium and Holland invaded by, 218
Czechoslovakia occupied by, 200–201
Denmark and Norway occupied by, 218
France occupied by, 218
Holocaust in, 246, 272–73, 326, 383n
Kristallnacht in, 200
Poland invaded by, 201
Polish Jews evicted from homes in, 200
Soviet nonaggression pact with, 201, 211
Spanish Civil War and, 198
Godwin, Kathryn, 100, 109
Golden, John, 171
Gorky, Ashile, 195
Gould, Bruce, 326–27
Gould, Jean, 355
Great Britain:
ER’s wartime tour of, 267–70
planned German invasion of, 218
U.S. destroyer deal with, 228
women in workforce and military of, 269–70
Great Depression, 1, 4, 11–12, 25–26, 35, 46, 96, 111, 169, 195
Greenwich Village (New York City), 158–61, 175–76, 187, 189, 311, 344, 387n
Grief (Saint-Gaudens), 45
Groton School, 26
Guadalcanal, Battle of, 278, 279, 281–82, 284
Guernica, bombing of, 198
Gurewitsch, David, 347, 387n
ER and, 317–20, 325, 331–32, 336–37, 339, 342–43, 344, 349
marriage of Edna Perkel and, 344
tuberculosis of, 318
Gurewitsch, Edna Perkel, 347, 387n
ER and, 344
Gurewitsch, Nemone, 318, 337
Guston, Philip, 195
“Hagar’s Farewell” (Moore), 162
Hague, Frank, 254, 255
Hall, Eddie, 66
Hall, Edith “Pussie,” 71
Hall, Mary, 18, 65–67, 70
Hall, Radclyffe, 369n
Hall, Val, 66, 71
Halsey, William “Bull,” 279–80, 282
Halsted, James, 347
Hammarskjöld, Dag, 344
Harding, Warren, 76
Harper Publishing, 334
Harper’s Bazaar, 164
Harriman, Averell, 264–65
Harron, Marion, 262
Hick’s love affair with, 256–57, 283–84, 287, 290–91, 316
humor of, 287
as Tax Appeals judge, 256–57
Hartley, F. A., 255
Harvard University, 26
Hassett, Bill, 298, 301
Hay-Adams Hotel, Washington, 283–84
Haycraft, Howard, 180–81, 205, 316–17
Hayes, Roland, 112
Hearst, William Randolph, 42
Hemingway, Ernest, 198
Hendrick, Jim, 320
Hickok, Addison, 49, 50–53
Hickok, Anna Waite, 50–52
Hickok, Lorena “Hick,” 321
animals as love of, 50, 51
Anna Roosevelt and, 352
as avid reader, 51–52
Belle Roosevelt and, 162–63
Bill Dana’s friendship with, 181
birth of, 49–50
Campobello visit of, 131
car accident of, 120
childhood and adolescence of, 2, 16, 32, 49–57, 93
death of, 354
as Democratic Women’s Division executive secretary, 231–32, 233–34, 235–36, 239, 253–54, 262–64, 283, 289, 291
deteriorating health of, 334–35, 346, 351, 352, 353
diabetes of, 126, 297–98, 305, 315, 316, 317, 346, 351
as DNC publicist, 215, 233–34
dogs of, 25–26, 43, 83, 121, 179, 231, 317, 335, 352, 354
Douglas and, 163
driving lessons and car of, 99–100
education of, 57, 58–59
Ella Dickinson’s relationship with, 39, 41–42, 60, 100, 120, 124–25, 175
emotional intensity of, 3, 139–40, 146
ER biography by, 346
ER coached in press relations by, 31, 107
ER coverage as full-time assignment of, 1, 19–21, 22–23, 38, 43–44, 61
ER profile by, 27–28, 29–30
and ER’s death, 350, 351
and ER’s declining health, 346
ER’s family worries confided to, 84–85
ER’s first interview with, 15
and ER’s relationship with Lash, 212
on ER’s wartime tour of England, 270
ER’s writing career and, 110–11, 170, 174, 207
evicted from father’s house, 52–53
father’s beatings of, 49, 51, 52
on FDR, 353
FDR admired by, 149–50
FDR and, 18–19, 161–62
and FDR’s death, 305–6
first jobs of, 53, 54
Flanigan’s friendship with, 214–15
hard-luck stories as special interest of, 16–17, 60
Harron’s love affair with, 256–57, 283–84, 287, 316, 290–91
Haycraft and, 180–81
Helen Douglas and, 264
Helen Keller book of, 341–42, 352, 354, 355, 387n
Holt’s relationship with, 148–49, 175
Hopkins’s hiring of, 82, 83
Howe and, 97
Hyde Park residences of, 345, 357
increasing reclusiveness of, 316–17
journalism career abandoned by, 46–47, 61, 81–82
journalism career of, 1, 3–4, 16, 42–43, 47, 49, 57–61, 107–8, 346
as Ladies of Courage coauthor, 334–35, 387n
in last meeting with father, 53
lesbianism of, 39
Little House of, 179–80, 205, 214, 236, 257, 272, 278, 290–91, 298, 316, 334, 335, 345
love affair of ER and, see Roosevelt, Eleanor, love affair of Hick and
Manhattan apartment of, 25
in Michigan, 140–41
money problems of, 315, 334
1917 Justice Department investigation of, 217
at 1940 Democratic convention, 221–22, 225, 226
and 1940 election, 229
at 1948 Democratic convention, 321, 323
Norton and, 254, 255, 256, 333–34
outspokenness of, 141
post-Women’s Division jobs of, 315–16, 334–35
in Prescott meeting with ER, 17
racism of, 111–13, 117
Reuther book of, 349, 355
Rhinebeck cemetery memorial to, 358
in Roosevelt Special, 14, 15–17, 19
smoking by, 126
sympathetic stories on outcasts written by, 59–60
as team player, 143
and This I Remember, 327–29
Thompson and, 15–16
on Truman, 313–14
unpublished biography of, 328, 366n
in visits to Val-Kill, 315
war correspondent work considered by, 164–65
weight of, 3, 126
as White House resident, 2, 82, 161–63, 165–66, 236, 239–40, 247–48, 258, 275, 277, 307
White House room of, 155–56
will of, 354
Women’s Division resignation of, 300–301
World’s Fair PR job of, 169–70, 173, 174, 193–94, 195
You Learn by Living portrayal of, 345–46
young adult books of, 341–42, 345, 349, 351–52, 387n
Hickok, Lorena “Hick,” New Deal field work of, 148, 215, 346
de facto slavery observed by, 116
ER and, 93–99, 101, 105–10, 119
Hopkins’s instructions for, 89, 98
in Indiana, 144
in Kansas, 135–36
Midwest trip of, 100
in Nevada, 135
in New Jersey, 144–45
in Northeast, 99–100
posthumous book based on, 163, 165, 169, 354–55
in Puerto Rico, 103, 105–10, 119, 285–86
in the South, 112–17
in Southwest, 117–18
West Coast trip in, 120, 129, 134–35