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June 19, 1948

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profiles

Eleanor Roosevelt’s Unprecedented Global Influence

E. J. Kahn

Part 2 of E. J. Kahn’s 1948 Profile of President Roosevelt’s widow discusses her international travels and her work as chairman of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights.

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A Call On Mrs. Forrester (After Rereading, In My Middle Years, Willa Cather's "A Lost Lady" and Henry James' "The Ambassadors")

James Thurber