National Affairs: Housekeeper's Week

Last week was a busy one for Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt. For seven years the First Lady has left citizens bemused by her energy, her speeches, her candor, her clubs, her charities, her children, the range of her interests, the breadth of her sympathy, and the way she got around. She has been less like the traditional First Lady than like the busy mistress of some great estate, with the whole U. S. as the household. Upstairs, downstairs, morning to night, seven days a week, with never a cross word, she has noted spots of dust on the chandelier, the need...

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