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Division of the Unitec tatea Treasury Department in LosA.ng.|.es, and worked cltosely with applicant during tne perioct
19 , through l91;5. he stated applicant was e. prominent
woman who baa been appointed upon a recommendation made by
_ELEAIIO¥b-ROOSEVELT, wire or former President FRANKLIN D. -
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The "Birmingham News? for April 15, l carriedtwo stories mentioning Polie Oommissioner EEGENE OR of
Birmingham. The first story indicated thatiir. CONNOR callsthe above-mentioned articles by HARn1son T='>5sa1.;ssusY "a _
cheap attempt to smear.our city and state". The other ;
article reported on a speech Commissioner CONNOR made at - '
Selma, Alabama, on the night of April l, 1960. In this
speech, according to the "Birmingham News , Mr. CONNOR said
that the Negro is seeking "black supremacy" rather than racial
equality. This article further quoted Mr. CONNOR as saying,
"I'll tell you right now, unless the South makes up its mind
to stand up and fight this p1ague==and it is a plague==we are
going to find Negroes who can't read and write again enforcing
our laws. You may as well face it now--this is the way it will
be if it is left no to Russia and those so-called Northern
D;m:3?;t: such ::EL?NOPRqoswvwTm, Nezro Congressman ADAM929292ggAYTO OWELL, ew York Senators JACOB92{&3lTS and KENNETHATING, LTER92 UTHER, and others . ' ~- - ' =~~""
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- It was noted that the Southern Conference Education Fund, Incorporated,
listed as sponsor of the conference, Lad offices at 822 Pcrdido Street, _
fie.-e Crleens, Louisiana. . _ i
,1' Hews tor for Station '.'d"'5GE, itlflnta, Georgia,
made available es. script reflecting a radio speech delivered by _I2r___|_3.1:f11s
3-3. C1e_::er:t, President oz? Ltlanta Universitjr, and delivered over Radio
'5'-L-eltionh .1323 on April 26, 1953- IJr;_Cle:nent in his speech points out that
he is d*3li*.-F-I'iI1g the speech in ansrror to a broadcast made by Tr. Joe -etrickon I-.;>"ril 2?, 1953 in ".:hich ?'r. Patrick pointed out that Dr. Rufus E/fjlezaent
had a]_le;;r.-;'1?.;; be1on;_,cc?. to the Southern conference for Ehzmcn ;.e1fare, the .
south-.=:'n Fe;-no jozuih Cc:1_;:~ess_, and the Amer} can Curtzittee for the Protection
,h- 4112 Z'":r-e:'¢;n Earn, ace-zrding to the files oi the House Cozzzzittee on
=.='.::erice-:1 ,1etl-sities.
Dr. Clezrent in 1*.-is reply stated that Jr. Patrick's conments in this regard
more correct but added, "I should like categorically to state that I have
- never been e. C;;:.3'..uniSt or e fellow traveler, and that I an not now a
I3:1 2:"; st, .2 11.11;.-* L-,5-.'v"e1-.1, uy =1 =:~_;¢,-92.=ers1ve. 1~'1.irt.ner. I challen:_-e .=!n_r;1r92¢=
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£;on1'nr:-race for ljmnan !.'eliere, the Sout1'1:~rn I!e;_;ro Youth C02'i _;1-2SS_, or _ .e
!;"'=':1ic:1!'1 Coe~nii.1,ee for tizr. Protection of the Forei»;n_3orh. I ~=3'~.92l¬1, ho"-cove r,
cull attention to tne feet. that I was in these or;e:1_12.eti:ms at a time and
<;im'i:1,, e period. when n*.n_-I hell-kno-';n, tho:-ou,;;'nly loyal .-'.::::;ric:ms, 3-Iegro ;.;.-ti
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21¢-.': 1.1-ship §1nl suj>p-orters of the Southern ;o:fe»r:r1r~.-2 for ii=:m:=.z1.-'elfare '-.-ere
F."iC1". illustriouz and loyal men and v.-oi-en as ~£=.r-s. ;-:;leano'r~.Q:oscvelt, wife of
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e coyuzrreej omen serreuaes 1?, 19.54.
On Houember 11, 1954, there was-receiued_fron the
Department a copy of the revised report prepared by the Ctvil
Service Commission. The material received consisted of the
following:
1. A copy of the revised Volume 1 of the report92 . .. this is Tgsic report!.
A copy Of1£pp6naiO88 A and o to report
Ippendix A consists of case examples and
Appendix B consists of material supporting
the report such as Executive Orders,
Departmental Circulars, etc,!.-
A copy of Appendices A and B as originally
prepared for the report. _
The above material was returned to the Department
Bureau letter dated November 12, 1954. Three Potoatats
it, however, were node for the Bareau'e use.
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17 years old. Actually I went to see Washington, They had a couple
of rallies that I went to.
How were you introduced to tis organization? ,
At the office they had quite a group that I got friendly with.
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You went to Washington with them and they took you to a meeting?
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ti Dies Comittoe in 1939. She atayeyl in favor or the group unt.
191.0. when she refused to participate in their noting because of
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Dear 1-tr. Hoover,
I receiveé the enclosed letter and
wonder whether you know anything ct the
writer: complaints. I shall be very
grateful to you it you could let me have
some information on this case.
hope not to cause undue trouble,With many thanks in advance and the
yours very sincerely, 5
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Mrs. Franklin o:§>oseve1t T B, Q5 ~'> " J -LT
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New York 21, iIev_r__Yorl: _
My dear Mrs. Roosevelt:
Your note of J uly 16, 1958, enclosing the letter
howl? he been =e=e=ve-
In renlv to vour inquiry, I wish to advise that
5-.-::£:!:::. ts this 2;:::::;-.: in the past i.".£s:r;.at1on
similar to that contained in her current letter. She has com-
municated on various occasions with the President, the Attorney
General, other governmental oicials and the U. S. Immigration
and Naturalization Service. She has also been interviewed by
/ifqaecial Agents oi this Bureau. _ CD ,,
55 '; 5/v sI ~" The medical director oi the Colorado Psychiatric!-4 ¢.-
_' Homjital, Denver, Colorado, has stated that he examined _
*' in 1951 and, based on the limited examination he could maize at that;
,ti'me,~it was difficult to determine how serious her mental disorder
'1 was; however, he stated that he had concluded that she was entering
E from a iiiental disorder known as schizophrenic paranoia.
Inasmuch as it may be oi further use to you, I am
A Sincerely yours, N '/7
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Mrs. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT attendant
at latter wedding. active.in children's welfare
organizations in NYC and resides
Subject and husband spend summers at Martha's Vineyard,
Massachusetts. on staff of "New York Post"
and covers United Nations. Subject and husband continue to
maintain c1ose.relationship with Mrs. ROOSEVELT, who is '
frequent visitor at their home. i
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JOSEPH BASH, it is noted that the column, "The Lyons Den,"
written by LEONARD LYOPIS in the "New York Post" on Ilovember 8
1914'-I-, carried an item as follous:_"Eleanor Roosevelt will be
matron of honor at e wedding of Trude Pratt and sgt. Joe
Lash, Just back f m Guada1ca.na.l." It is noted that the full
name of the wido of the late President FRAHICLIN D. ROOSEVELT
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_stated that he would appreciate advice
as to whether or not his acknowledgement of this letter would be wise.
He also indicated an interest in knozwing how .vrs._ RO0SEVELT'e frank is
available to persons in the Soviet Occupied Zone. _ -
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addressed to
holds the position designated. _
ACTION:
It is respectfully requested that the Bureau Laboratory examine the letter
and envelope above mentioned in order to determine the following facts:
1.. The country of manufacture of the paper on which the letter is
I--ringer
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2. The make oi typewriter on which the letter is typed.
3. The country in which the envelope was manufactured.
ll. -The make of typewriter used in addressing the envelope.
It is respectfully requested that the Laboratory give this matter
ous attention and prepare a meooramltnt laboratory report, copies of which_.___._... }_ W GXPGGIE:J, -v wcan be forwarded to fmshington Fielc. and to New York. ..¢- mw -5; -., .,e zz?-/La;-' r M
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6; In the event the Laboratory has available any specimens of lirs. Roosevelt's92 V 'ireh}:, it is requested that the frank on the envelope be compared with them.F
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exa.zn:I.nation cn December 19, 19¢-,6. ' ~: -_ ._.- ¢Q1 An envelop!'bearing the typewritten address - _ I }-/-' ['
posh ;-é_,"':c, ';'ED marked "I*-'."I'.¥ YORK, N. Y. PRC 4 1946 9:30 PI.-I", bearing
frank signature of inns E... eanc:-looeevelt, .
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Specimen Q1 was examined for the presence of a watermark or other identidng
characteristics which would defirrltely invcate the manufacturer of this envelope;
- halrevcr, none was fovnd. It is noted that Q1 consists of a good-quality of white bond
giplper which is similar to the quality of numerous envelopes manuia.ctured in this
-_eomtry previously e.Yar.i.ne-1 in the I-lboc-story. -
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but I do think it my se ti es I know you are very busy,
couple of men in this
ofitizeq to cell your attention to u
, of this city, and a man by the name
nno oublisnes'u weezly paper in Denver culled The
mme3twt3y_. I believe the Commentator is published by .°.."5.! -.
t: Midland ;dII1snin3 Comperg-~-and + have rehson to believe that
is one or the financial baokers. .
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.5;-|-in;~= for an in<l;ll.L1-linft or Irani-
ling 5_.i:r;921 R1 Coltllll Onllrge, 1*"!
llln-re should be n-2 place {hr
l_ra<I-lcal "social .sci--urn" educators.I At the pn-sent. ma» u nativnul
gr:-;1r.»i=--ii'.~!:92-r of thv "-921~l- l1_l'i_ I9
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ior cn:~.:.¢-nt of the :m:hr>i'i.:v.~i 'a'=
far as thi.-i wiiii-r 1-.nu92~.-s. Suirl
EDA r-92prr-.-c-iitatiw is trying 10o};,'aiii.".r- 5 t'l92192{|l.'_l ot thr- t92§92_':_1;i_92::-itéigampug 8.; {my would have the¢;,n_q 1.,-p 130mm-riitic M-tion é: §_*_'c0-op:-ralzcft of the cqluge ad-;-' ~ - 1 ".1- 'LA: unit:-r thl. 11.-mv 0 u
diiits for Dr-rnoerzitsi: Acl.iTJ?i".'l
This nntinna! nrgnnizvr tor S-
DA ad=li'~*.<sr'i l rr*C¢-I'll. mffllng
of the Colorado Co-legit Sf-WJ'£'1'1l
|Uni0n and statod timt. chapters
taro be-ing formed at Wyoming uni
l92ni:=:".}'. Dr-nvnr uiiivci-sity andlUrii92'¢>r.=jty of Colom-.10. The SD-.-at»
-hr-arl nt this subversive move-
ilhl at CC iq one oi um "~¢i:..
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5Cl 792ct' at CC. who is acting as
i-nrdinator for the CC chapter.
'I!ic- lintinnai Student Ass.:»cia-
trni92g§s»92| was horn about one
_92_l|-ar nprn when TM s'.iiclr~nts from
a'hcml. 300 coll:-5:.-i= met at the
iUni92-ursity _m{ Chicago at the in-
.92'il.ati r'r of 25 AI'lI 'l i92'¬92t'I dclrzzatvh
to liar '92{m'l:! Stiirlriit £n~1gr0ss-'
Thr- 9292'or_i<l Student Conizrcfq 92-jis
held in Prague--tho .~.um:.1~r 011916. The pin:-pose 0. the dlll '_Tt'92
Confrrncc was in discuts the
Iorniation of tho i92'r.I.innul Stit-
,n-.r-riran Stiidcnt Fninn disintw
;'."':92tr-it 921"Vl"! r-hargrn of heirs; n
"p!l1Yr92l11192'.92[ rrwl fasril front 11-1:1
alstixitont moi'cmr'nl bcrn mobil-92 Av"l1l Ala-ociittinn. N-it sintf the!9292'ith each nth.-r and undoubtc-div
will he cu:1.'.!f.92'1l".l 85 l"1iil1;§ sub-
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our country and the college caitr
g~921i==~;-. All 01 them being Leftist
ifrotit it is interesting to note
;hnw the reds, under saver, use
them amour: the» youth to 1:|.92' 92I_'
tho _92Tiir.'-linll Plrn, which the Reds
in the op-n oppose.
Ii is .=.'-_-.;.vd that the ai.'.l~
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win rcprvsciitation. Itlt1tt'1.t5 ll-Jl
Dcnwcratic Ac-tinn is a youth or-
ganization sponqnrvd by the Amtr-
'i<:an Youth for Domocrac_92* AYD!
ii Communist front and term:-r1_92'
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rnniroltvd bx" thr P.r-i Fasrist par-
,l92' Q! the I_!.5..A,. The A.Y.D. ill
that tin:- was rvfizsvrl roco;_-ni-;
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ware iignad - and , and it 1;!: nod that than lotrborl
. by wen directed to
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me third pertinent pert of the above described ooumn:d.oa-
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Electorial Reform League is having a big to do at the JohnMarshall High School this Saturday with Bro. hlenor Eleanor! '92Roooew1t Ind as the mhin speakers, ' ' '
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IB._;"l_l200SEELI"S letters read by 1.jS!{IPI-IHG, Chief Investigator
of the Committee.-oh Un-American Activities, in the presence of MESSEESGH1-lI17I', former
Lnintant Secretary of State. . .
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pr-esu sin what he undertakes to rove. this cliijttic, IE0, admired what he termed ahirie's
warm and vivid riarriilivc. The volume. Whldl
u s Book-of-tlie-Mandi-Club selection. be-
came a nonction best seller and rnadc ESP
ards a commercial conimodity and even rc-
suited in a telepathic radio program. Pro-
ceeds from the cards helped defray eXD¢rI$¢$
of experiments, while the book did much to
attract a flow -of endowments to Duke Um-
versity's Pziraipsychological Laboratory. Afurther teclii|it'..'il reyort, Extra-S i92t.t0ry_ Per-ception After Sixty '¢ar:, the collaboration of
Rhine and tlirce.of his assistants. appeared III
l940. The laboratory director has estimated
that at least one person in ve has had some
experience where his mind received knowledge
through suticriiormal channels,"
Since 1940, when Rhine became director of
the Par-apsychological Laboratory, _the._ accentin the work of this research institution has
been on psychokincsis._'"ln these PK expertJ ' ' E
CURRENT IIOGIAPHY
longs to Phi Beta Q3112. Xi, E
Sigim Phi, and Phi Lambda Upsilon interni-
ties. The Rhines have four children, Robert
Eldon. Sara Louise, Elizabeth Ellen and Rose-
rrtary. In a Life "close-up," Francis Still
9292-'icl-twiire has described Rhine as resembling
Abraham Lincoln in prole, Walter Huston in
fullface." Tris Collin, after watcliing him It
a Washington lecture, wrote: His 'es werevery alive and set far, far back. filis tliicl:
hair was almost all gray. The professor nds
relaxation in listening to music-
Reference:
Life 3:B%+ rs
Sat Rev Lit t 9 '37
American Men of Science I944!
International Who; 92V]1o, 1948
Rhine. I. B. Extra-Sensory Perception
I934!; New Frontiers of the Mind
U937!
Who: 92Vho in America. 19-l-8-49I ' 1
merits, which were carried out to discover9292R°osEvEL-I-I ANN§{LEANoR ratwhether the mind cairdirectly influence themotion of material objects," _Rhtiie has written,
we resorted to dice throwing." At rst the
dice were cast by hand, tater iron: a cup.
Finally, in 1943, an electrically driven cage was
developed which, while evoking much facetious
comment, did elirriinate the possibility of tam-pering. "From the begiiiniiig, wrote the gy-
chologist; "the PK scores tended to be a ve
chance and . . . as a result of hundreds of
thousands oi experimental trials we found_ itto be a fact that. it [ER] . . . exerts ai'i_u-i-
uence on matter whi h, though very sliirht
and ciiatic, is si.iii signicant, and which is
'_'-::::;l:.Z;'...!.L L, ...., I.-ttoi Ul eneigy itnown
to physics." More than this, he believes that
since ESP _has been found to function without
limitation from time and" space" and since "all
that immortality means is freedom from the
effects of space and time," the logical conclu-
sion is that there is at least some sort of tech-
nical suri-ivial" after death. The statements
quoted are from The Reaclie: of the Mind.published in book form in 19'-l7 and condensed
in the Reader: Digest for February 1948.!
Reviewing the work for the New York Sim,
William bIcFee found liiinself willing to wait
for further news from the beyond." The critic
for the Sotitrda_i' Rrviu of Literature de-
clared that as usual, Rhine writes calmly, but
amiii the evidence he presents is so startling
that it will be received by most people emo-
tionally ratlic_r than ratioii.'iliy. The protes-
sor himself is convinced that, while science
does not yet gciicrally accept his evidence,
eveiituiil acceptaiice is assured." lie has said:
"The reasons such eviileiice is not accepted at
once by the scientists arc, I think, more psy-
cholot.'.'ic:il than logical."
Professor Rhine, who is editor of the Jour-
nal of Purar.i;i-ctialn_q_t-, is a trustee of the
American Society for Psycliieal Research, a
curresponiliiig nicnilier of the part-iit society inlt"-92-'51l! Oct. ll, 1884- 'i1ited Nations of
ticial: writer
Address: b. c,/o Commission on Human Rights,
United Nations, New York; h. 29 9292-'ashingtori
Sq. W., New York ll; Hyde Park, N'.Y.
Non: This biography supersedes the
article yt-liicli appeared in Citr-
' rent Biography in 1940.
"Rt sixty-four, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt has
become perhaps the best~l<nowii woman in the
world." So wrote Time in f!-tr~l-in 10+l_t -_-f
Eieaiior t<oo_>sevelt, who in April 1046 i'IPt'9n-ii
92.:i¢iisil_4ll- Ul "TC UTIIICG Nalis
Commission on Human Rights. Seven months
afternthe death of her _h_i_i§band, _Presi§lent
rraniciin ueiai-_io KOOSCVCII ", she had been
appointed a United States delegate to the U.N.
in recognition of her own career in public
service. Through her newspaper and maga-
zine articles and her platform and radio talks
her ideas have reached a world-wide audience-
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was born to Elliott
and Anna Hall! Roosevelt in New York City
on October ll, 188-l. Theodore Roosevelt, the
twenty-fth President of the United States
{I901-8!, was her uncle. Both the Roosevelt!
and Halls were prominent socially, the rst-
named a wealthy family of Dutch descent, the
latter of the same family as ?hilip Livingston,
the English-descended signer Of the Declara-
tion of Independence. Eleanor: father was
known as a sportsman and big game hunter,
and her mother was a noted beauty of her
day, When the child was eight, not long after
the birth of her second brother only Hall,
the younger boy, lived to adult years!, her!
mother died, and the little girl went to live
with her ii1:ttern:il_gr:inrlmotlier, hlrs. Valen-tine G. Hall. Elliott Roosevelt died a ¥_ea_r
and it half later. In her autobiography, his
Lr My Story, Eleanor Roosevelt tells of her1
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lcinely ones, she reveals, since she hid I10
eonipnnirms of her own age, at-irl consequently
she read voracii-tisly, In 1899 she was taken
I0 Ettglltltl antl pl:tt't.'t.l in AllCl'!§ 'l'!O I- I 5Cll00l
for girls. Remaining abroad for three years,
she spent vacatiiiiis iii travel on the Continent-
At the arr: of i-iiilitt-cit she rclttmed to the
United States to make her home with cousins,
Mr. and Mrs. Hi-iiry Parish, ]r., and to be
presented to society.
During the years before her marriage MissR liG?92ElI taught at the Rivington Strcct_§ettle-
nicnt llouse. When she was nineteen, her lth
cousin, Franklin Di.-l:mo Roosevelt, then a
Harvard undergradiiate, asked her to marry
him; but in deference to, the wishes of the
young man's mother, the couple postponed tl-iei_r
marriage for thrcc years. On March 17, IQOJ,Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt were married,
that date being selected because President
Tlicodorc Roosevelt could then be in New Yorlr
to give the bride away. _Al the time of the
marriage the iiitiire President was a student
it Columbia University Law School.
Mrs. Roosevelt remarks in her autobiography
that during the early years of her marriage
she was dependent on the elder Mrs. Roosevelt
and on Mrs. Parish for advice-- I suppose I
was tting pretty well in the pattem of a
fairly conventional, quiet. young, society
matron," is Mrs. Roosevelt's own comment.
In January 191! her husband was elected a
New York State Senator, the family-the
Roosevelts had three children by .this time-
movcd to Albany, antl'Mrs. Roosevelt received
her rst contact with Politics and envrrrim.-tit.
In April I913 her husband was appointed
i"92SSlSlZ92I1I becretary rit the Navy in the Wilson
Administration, and the Roosevetts went to
Washington. Mrs. Roosevelt's days were taken
up with paying and receiving calls, as was
expected oi the wife of a Govemment oicial.
In 1920 she saw more of the political scene
when her husband was candidate for the Vice-
Presidency on the Democratic ticket, with Cox
running for President against Harding.
After the defeat of the Democratic party
in that election, Franklin Roosevelt entered the
practice of law in New York. Mrs. Roosevelt
took a course in shorthand and typing and
accepted an invitation to ioin the hoard of the
League of Wot-nen Voters. In I921, her
hiishand _w:is stricken with infantile paral sis,aiitl. acting on his physician's advice, lrs.
Roosevelt increased her political interests in
order to rekindle lier liiish:int|s interest in pub-
lic affairs. Instead of serving on boards she
be-gait to take a more active part in org:miza-
tion work, juining_ the Women's Trade Union
l_.e;-.3"-ie and porticipatiiig iii the atlairs of the
btatc Democratic party. In 1924 she began
four years service as nancial chairman of the
isomer-i's division of the Ftaie party.
Together with 3-larion Diclcenitari, whom she
had iiict tliroiigli the 9292'.T.U.L., Mrs. Roose-velt also l:UlllltlCCl- the Val-Kill Furniture Shop,
l "92>Ill'l'0hl store and factory established in
Hyde I:irk to give eiiiploynient to disabled
melt. From tlizit time oti slie was active in
New York State polities and in social service.
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lit 1926 she was the leading speaker in the
Senatorial campaign for Robert F. Wagrter ' .!
A year later, with Miss Dickermai-i and Nancy
Cook, she bought the Todhunter School,_ a
New York private school for girls; and actingas vieeprincipal. for six years she unt sociol-
ogy, eeonotmcs, and government. hen, in
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school from Albany, spending three days_in
New York and four at the Executive Mansion
in the State capital. "The Roosevelt: were
now a politiml ream," observed Ruby Black in
Eleanor Roosevelt; A Biography. "'Elm.nor
and 1' was a phrase common in Governor
Roosevelt's intimate discussions of issues, poli-
cies, and pIans." In charge of women's work
in the Democratic party, Mrs. Roosevelt_is
credited by James Farley "', according to Miss
Black, for the fact that in 1930, for the rst
time. upstate New York went Democratic. In
1932, when her husband was the Presidential
candidate, Mrs._ Roosevelt planned the_e:ictensionof women's division to a nation-wi_de scale;
"her name could not appear in this work,"
declared Miss Black, "but her_advtce and her
planning and her sense at polities were there.
O11 March 4, I933, Fratiltli_rt Delano Roose-velt was inaugurated as the thirty-second Presi-
dent ol the nited States, and Eleanor Roose-
velt began her twelve years as _First lfady.
She sold her interest in the Val-Kill furniturefactory and gave us the editorship she hadassumed iii June 193 oi a Macladden publica-
tion, Babies, J'ii.rl' Bahia: iier daughter,
was her assistant during this brief cormcction!.
Bowing to protests, she also discoiitinued her
appeararice on a eonimercicil radio program.
In her rst year at the White House, Mrs.
Roosevelt began her press coiiferences, the first
of their kind ever held by ti First Lady, and
attended only by women jounnlists. The
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Reference is node to the memorandum fro: you to*dated March 23, 1951, in the above-captioned matter
lttac e to this memorandum was the loyalty form on Anna
Eleanor Roosevelt, widow of the former President, in connecti
with her employment as a delegate with the .8. Jlission toy the
United Nations, Department of State. The Liaison Section was
instructed to return this fornto the State Department in view
of the fact Mrs. Roosuelt has been working on this assignment
since January 25, 194?. _j
The Director's notation concerning the return of this
loyalty fora to the State Dcpartxcnt is as follows: Rinht.Q | I in J U ' IIwe are not going to be used ai..;,h;s At-09¢ ea.-e .7. ;:;:... :: :::.;;. E.
On March 2?, 1951, of the Liaison Sectionreturned the loyalty form on Anna Eleanor Roosevelt to
_o_f the Security Division of the State Department with the
statement that this fora cannot be accepted by the Bureau for
processing at this date in view of the fact that llrs. Roosevelt
has been working with the United Nations since early 194?.
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SUBJECT: ANNA ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
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To call your attention to the agghgd,_J_q1;
Ele or___Boosevelt, widow of the former President, rece
State Department in connection with her mission as U. S. Delegate
to the United Nations. This form reflects that _Mrs. Roosevelt has
been em loved by ,the_Denart_ment. of'State in this _c;,i>_acdity_§_1nce.Lan1.1arL 25-12-F2. _The f_orm itself bears date of ApriI.2Z, IQE.It uas___not submitted to__te _@1;ea11 until March 20, l95'l.
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has been delayed until March 20, 1951. it is believed that the Bureauwould be Justified in returning'the form to the State Department =
through liaison channels with the statement that in view of the delay
of submission of the form from January 25, l9l|-'7, until March 20, 1951,
the Bureau does.not feel that the form can be for processingat this date. p RECORDED- Qjé
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of___the-1.act_ _that__Mrs.'_Roose'velt'has -been working einee Tanuary....25, 15M,the form cannot be accepted for procfssing at th s date.
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E, embattled and betrayed, still stands our last citadel oi
York, the wonder of the world, is beset with self-seekingand their grubby, grabbing adherents, their eleemosynaryand their missionaries of malcontent. But it has weatheredand storm and remains our one surviving fortress of post-
existence. It contains the remnants of our art, culture,theatre and elegant living. _same social termite elements that toppled San-FranciscoOrleans from their gracious cosmopolitan witcheriesgnawed at New York, but it is too big for them and it ts
ea on granite.
e inroads of the three R's-respectability. relief and radical-have en heavy, but New York has not yet struck its colors.d this high hope, because it draws the talent, the brains.t" ind the energy of the fading world. _athy, for centuries the emblem of our misrule, yet alwayse for growth and progress in feeding its own grafting avarice.a coma of disrepttte and desut-tttde. Our principal ollictalsonpartisan, which means they must grovel before the desert-
tripgiers of all parties. Twenty years of Rooseteltum ll-1!rd us with the noxious virus oi tote-catching tmlute that tit:tired the t-llartmy -perception whith was an Attterttan g--t
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pig ne and carnival.
He was our last, lost dream.Thereupon, after a year of transition McKee and O'Brien! thert vulution of the polyglot proletariat took over with the strident.g1e:.sy and pharisaical Little Flower, La Guardia. He assumedollite on january t, i934. Only twenty-sit; days earlier, the GreatEst-eriment had come to an end. _ el92'evcr before or since, in the memory of living man, was themetropolis so wide open. Though the legal liquor closing hourw ts and is 4 A.M., no elfort was made to shutter anything that stoodright with-the cops, City Hall, or, strangely enough, Tammany,though Fiorello was elected as a Tiger-killer.Harlem had one of the greatest booms of its existence. DuringP:"onibit'ion no one had bothered Negro speaks if they boughttheir liquor from "Dutch" Schultz, wltose booze domain extendedthete from the Bronx; By 1934, the colored inhabitants hadre tched such proportions that, voting in a bloc, they could welltum a city election. Though La Cuartlia had beaten on a re-li;;it-us Issue! joseplt V. McKee, the hand-piclttd candidate oiR rtrsevelt and Etl Flynn, the blue-veined FDR quickly tool: theart tlt:I itlul into his fold-the alliance ll;l92lIl'_{ llct rt prmttuleti byHem =r, who, uith .92lrs. l'etLius, llatry llnpkins .t|ttl the it-st ul
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of Fiorello's. He had her undercover support duri lg his campaign,
which showed professional Detnocrats-including" FDR-that she
was the Boss Tweed of the party.
The Roosevelts and 13. Guardia set about to take the Negroes,
traditional Lincoln Republicans. into the fold. La Guardia not
only set up the rule that no Negro was to be arrested for anything
-but that police patrolling Harlem could not carry night sticks.
That special pandering to colored oriminals is still with us.
While these pages were being typed, the polic: commissioner,
on the_ representation of Negro groups, witltdrew half the
mounted police stationed in Harlem and proinsed to take the
rest out soon. Horse-cops are a common sight all over midtown
New York where they are not only welcome. but considered by
citizens one of the labels of our city. But colored leaders said they
frightened Negroes. made them think of cossacks!
The reason Harlem wants no mounted cops is simple. Foot
patrolmen refuse to work there, except in pairs; even then they
goldbriclt and remain in the precinct houses [with approval of
higher-ups] because their lives aren't safe. Motor zed cops aren't
much better off, because to be effective in breaking up riots or
making pinches they must get out of their cars. B ll mounties are
dreams for this kind of work. Educated police horses can go
wherever a man can go. They can charge into sidewalk crowds,
pursue fugitives up alleys, etc. And the man on tie horse always
has control of the situation.!
So Harlem became the big town's rst nightl fe Mecca after
Repeal. Your authors remember trips to smoltt-lled cabarets
that did not open their doors until after 4 a.st.. and ran until
noon or as late as a chump could take it. Police tars were parked
outside of brightly lighted clubs which were defy it g all the codes.
One of the best known at the time was Dickey W :lls, in a cellar.
patronized by the theatrical elite. Dickey is deal now, but he
recently got some posthumous fame in the trial of Tallulah Bank-
head's ex-maid. when she testified that Dickey sold dope for her
former. mistress.
Everyone liked 9292"ells. though he was known even in the thirties
as a junk pusher. lle sold it openly in his cafe. Anti Fiorello's at-
feet took payoffs, most of which went r r ""-0I I __ a g |
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4 .92..92t. Another midtown law-breaker was D.
Room on 54th Street. ten feet from [lro:tdwa'
of a building owned by the late Big Bill Dw
leggers. I!wyer's offices were right above it.
dough for the deadfall and La Guardia's mi
couldn't shut, couldn't shake.
Down in the Village jimmy Kelly: fatn
and it still is. Kelly is dead now, a great lo:
life, and his assigns close promptly at the le
an Italian, was a Tammany district leader a
all during the reign of In Guardia, who p
many's scourge. he was allowed to go all ni
to obey the law only when a Democrat came
It was at this time that the nucleus of 1
syndicate was being conceived in New You
left Prohibition behind with billions; now
new enterprises and investments. L'tGuardia
bitter enemy of gangsters, but under his pt
encouragement the Mob was allowed to g
come the Great Crime Cartel.
Before 1932. crime was local. Save for Chi
gangs were subservient to older, non-Italian
acted as torpedoes.
LaGuardia was elected in 1953: he oici
tello is no subsequent creation of the past
mob had cleaned up all opposition by the
rub-out of Dutch Schultz. who was the last
Prohibition kings still active. All this happe
was orating every Sunday on the radio about
horns out"mcaning Costello and Ericks
with Costello every Thursday night in the
46th Street spaghetti house. The broadcasts
licized arrests of big shots always tlisrhargerl
window-dressing and kept I.a ;uartlia in oflit
during which the city was taken mt-r by the II
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A. The White House ,Gang-Post and Present
REGINNING with the reign of King Franklin the First andhis omnipotent consort, Queen Eleanor. it has been consideredunsportsmanlike, un-American" and unethical to pan the Admin-
istration. The heir apparpnt too apparent!. Harry the Little,punishes lest 22:.-tj-.-"P with dirty letters and toilet~wall words. We
are prepared for the Tower.We got pretty friendly with the former royal iamily. Qnr news-paper beats frequently take us to the ginmills. That: where most
Roosevelt princelings play. The dowager goes in through the
back door. We frequently ran -into her at day-time chorus re-
hearsals in the old Paradise night club, one of gangster "Chink"Sherman: enterprises. Eleanor was interested in the career of a
protege, a cute teen-ager from the Pennsylvania mines.The Broadway crowd had contributed to the elevation of her
brood. The late President was elected Governor of New York
with the support of numbers-sellers, dope-peddlers, bookies,"Dutch" Schultz and jimmy Hines. Hines remained a member of
the FDR braintrust until Dewey sent him to the pokey. In 195:,
Hines and Franlt Costello shared a suite at Chicago's Drake Hotel.where they helped in the convention ght which resulted inFDR's presidential nomination. In return. Roosevelt gave the
boys immunity. .Saratoga ran wide open in the Roosevelt and Lehman--"mygood right arm"-days as Governors. There were no pari-mutuellthen. Gambling at the track was illegal. But bookmakers operatedopenly with their names over stalls, provided,for them unlaw-fully by the racing associations. Lehman had a box at Sat-atogmWe frequently saw him at the races. We know he knew the law
was being violated.The two-way tie-up with the underworld worked both ways.James lirnmy Got It! Roosevelt was in the julte-box business. inpartnership with the Mills Novelty Company, manufaetureriolI-rank Costello: slot-rnaichines. Anna Roosevelt borrowed some oi
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TIDENTIAL
t and Present
Franltlin t.he First and
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cal to pan the Admin-
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the bankroll to start her newspaper in Phoenix from Charles
Ward, millionaire ex-convict. She stilfed himYoung Frank: former law-partner, Charle-A Poletti, oould tellplenty about the underworld tie-up between92C0steIlo and his
friend ll-larcantonio. if he were asked and if he'd talk. 92Vhen
junior ran for Congress, an intermediary asked Costello to keep
out of his district until _a£ter election. Costello complied.
Elliot's unsavory business associations would ll this book.
jimmy, oldest oi the boys. was rst to cash in on the good thing.
It seems so long ago that he got that $500,000 a year for selling
insurance to government contractors. It was. And he and his
mother are still getting it. In the late thirties jimmy amplied his
insurance income by dabbling in the movie business. That's when
he made a deal with the Costello boys to put out juke-box lms.
He also produced a couple of feature-length pictures on the West
Coast with dough put up by jot: Schenelt. Sometime thereafterSehenck wove himself into a stran% web of intrigue and conspir-
acy involving shaltedown payments to ocials in Calwneelom
inated movie unions. After Westbrook Pegler and Arthur Ungar,
late editor of Daily Variety, exposed the deal, Uncle Sam could
' no longer sidestep prosecution. ' ,
A conference was held in the President's office, attended by the
Treasury agents who had made the case, the Attorney General
and the U.S. Attorney from the district in which the trial was to
t::.!;: ;.l:..:;.. Rwscveit was advised oi the circumstances and re-
minded that Schenck had lent $50,000 to Eleanor for jimmy:
movie deal. Roosevelt was asked. vvhat shall we do, Mr. Presi-
dent?" He replied, "I'd just as soon have you forget it."
t The prosecutor said, If you order me to lay oil, I must. But
in that case I will submit my resignation tomorrow and tell the
newspapers I failed to prosecute Sehenclt and the gangsters be-
cause you wouldn't let me."-
- The prosecution went forward. Schenck, the unfortunate vic-
tim elected to take the fall for the industry, went into a prison
hospital, then back to civilian life. And the real criminals were
iecretiy paroled before their terms expiredAnd did anyone point out that Charles gaggett, who refused
to answer whether he was a Communist, w jimmy Roosevelt's
ghost writer in the last campaign?
Which brings us to the drug-store cowboy from Kansas City
Ind the grafters, griiters, poker-players, bourbon-drinkers and in-
fluence-peddlers who comprise the present White House Gang.
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of statements by Hrs. ELT:2ANOHROOS3VELT, JCH_i:i-'eR¬D5EVEL'1, and ROOSEIVELT
BOETTIGER protesting the use ot FRANKLIN DJ¢ T's name in asso-
ciation with third party movements in Oregon. In this article NORA HITC'h'LZ;a1i
Ll¬D3_3, oi the Committee oi Roosevelt Democrate, claimed that this
group has no connection with A. WALLACE and the Third Party. The r
Oregonian article of April 8 credited NORA I-II'1C1-!1!..I~T ISISFE with claiming !that the Oregon Conmittee of Roosevelt Democrats -is a. commfttae composed of
Democratic members of th¢="Americans for Democra.tic'Action, the Progressive
Citizens or America, and persons not connected with either group, formed -
for the purpose oi insti1".:Lng some confidence in Democrats that a vigorous,
intelligent, and honest campaign would be conducted by the group, pursuing
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My dear Ere. Roosevelt:
four letter dated ay .26, 1952, and the
enclosed connunicotion forwarded to you by __
have been received and 1'
,,'al1;,' appreciate the spirit yhich activated you to
conmun ioate with me.
An examination of communication
diaoloeee it ie of interest to the Atomic Energy Connie-
eion and, therefore, I have taken the liberty of for-
warding copies of hie letter to that Agency-
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I an returning herewith the original communi-
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contacted enleee conpeiling reeeone dicdated othermieet
This action was taken in view of her expressed antagonism
toward the Bureau. In view thereof, the usual cordial
closing paragraph is being omitted. Preaioue correspondence
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Q-5| 9REY-QRQE -51 .- -~Q§fQJ" Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt 929292 202 Fifty-sixth Street, Feat *
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92 - .2? dear Mrs.
- Iith respect to your note of February 10,
1953, and its enclosure, I note that the back
M page of this sheet indicates it is put_ovf he
1 the Christian htiunlilt Granada rh St. Louis,
it Missouri, which orpanization allegedly is pronoted
by I feel certain you are
aware of his past activities.
IAs the FBI is strictly an inuestigative,5
agency, I have taken the liberty of referring :1
your letter and enclosure to the Department of
Jhstice for whatever action $c'believcdo marrantedr;
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L! £323: crres . . H ..s .atare which is dietrby the §hrist1gp_£gtLonal11i_G usade._ This organilatian ispromote U who HE. been investigated in the
past for sedition and more recently under the Federal Corrupt
Practices Act. In 1949 the Department requested information re _,
this organilation in order to refer the material to the Post 'Office Department|as a.pogqible matter involving illegal use of
the mails. On lll45l' d4ttorney with the
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that fonner President Roosevelt proposed to divide the worldinto two parts one half th , for e U; 8. and one half jarRussia. He said they had been working on this matter since
a complaint had been received from Ire. Roosevelt. Itappears instant pamphlet is identical men the one
mentioned. In Jane 1§49, the department requested thatwe Jurnish than/bodgernfng activities of the Christian
Nationalist Crusade, as they night desire to refer thematter to the Solicitor General of the Post Office Dept.
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