Eleanor Roosevelt's final illness described by son
Eliot Roosevelt chronicles Eleanor Roosevelt's painful last years, revealing her plea to die and secretive stopping of medicines in 1962. He recounts a long battle with aplastic anemia and tuberculosis, family estrangement, and regret over the lack of closeness among Roosevelt children.
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Roosevelt
Eleanor
New York
Eleanor Roosevelt
Eiliot
Franklin D. Roosevelt
R. Eleanor Roosevelt
Alma
David Gurewitsch
Gurewitsch
FBI Paid 300 Spies in Socialist Workers Party Probe
The FBI disclosed the use of about 300 informants over six years in monitoring the Socialist Workers Party and its affiliates. Payments exceeded $1.6 million, with some informants on the payroll for up to seven years, but no indictments followed after a prior 1940 Smith Act case.
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Washington
FBI
Socialist Workers Party
PRY
Socialist Workers
The
Young Socialist Alliance
Bureau
Justice Department
GOP says Carter keeps more promises than he breaks
The Republican National Committee reports 674 Carter promises as candidate reduced to under 660 by duplicates. Of these, 121 kept by definite action, 77 broken by action or inaction, 230 partially addressed, and 153 with no clear progress.
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Washington
Republican National Committee
Carter
GOP
Studies find cash aid not fueling excess spending
Washington government studies disprove fears that cash instead of food stamps would be wasted on liquor or race tracks. Foreman cited HEW data showing poorer people spend a higher share on food and housing, less on transportation and entertainment, as welfare hearings consider Carter's plan.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Garol Tucker Foreman
Food and Consumer Services
Joseph Fisher
D-Va
President Carter
Fisher
House Welfare Subcommittee
Carter
Foreman
Congress
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Current Ladies Home Journal
John
Franklin Jr
Eliott
James
Anna
Roosevelt Library
Hyde Park
N.Y
Department of Health, Education
Sia
Walter Pease
Lakewood Center
Walt
Chotiner & Gambiner
Walls
Lakewood Center Mall
Lacewood
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