THE PRESIDENCY: My Dear Children

Nobody was surprised, but a lot of people were pained, when last week Jimmy Roosevelt filed suit for divorce. President and Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt had no comment to make. Jimmy was their eldest, but it was well known that they both highly esteemed Mrs. Jimmy (Betsey Gushing).* The Jimmy Roosevelts had been married ten years, and there were two children.

Joined to Jimmy's name for many a month had been the name of pretty, 24-year-old Romelle Theresa Schneider, trained nurse who attended him at the Mayo Clinic when he underwent an operation in 1938. There was no immediate prospect...

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