The head of the United States Office of War Information
called for this movie to be immediately and widely released. Roosevelt
, already an admirer of the book, joined in the rapturous reception of the...
politics
Helen Waddell
HW
wrote that the fudging of national relations with Hitler
at the Munich crisis poisoned me body and spirit.
Blackett, Monica. The Mark of the Maker: A Portrait of Helen Waddell. Constable.
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After Poland fell to the Nazis (who took Warsaw on 27 September 1939), HW
sent...
Wealth and Poverty
Alice Walker
By the time AW
was born her parents were supporting their seven older children on $200 or $300 a year. A relief agency dispensing food vouchers under Roosevelt
's New Deal once refused to serve...
Occupation
Eudora Welty
Back home, EW
worked a slew of part-time positions trying to begin a writing career and support herself financially: she resumed her script-writing position at WJDX; she worked for five months on her friend...
Publishing
Rebecca West
Time and Tide published The New Deal, RW
's series of four reports on American politics, and the historic intervention of F. D. Roosevelt
which was announced on 2 July 1932.
Deakin, Motley F. Rebecca West. Twayne.
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Hutchinson, G. Evelyn. A Preliminary List of the Writings of Rebecca West, 1912-1951. Yale University Library.