First Lady Slows Down

Eleanor Roosevelt's conscience hurt her: she told newspaper women last month at a press conference that she was ashamed to find herself going to a private lunch in a White House car, thus wasting gas and rubber. In My Day she called attention to her sins of travel, ascribed them to forgetfulness, promised in the future to use air routes, Government automobiles and Pullmans only when traveling as the President's wife on official wartime business. She said: "I'm not at all sure any speech I make is a contribution, or that it...

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