While five coffeepots boiled and bubbled in the background, Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt last week sat down at a Washington press conference to launch a new organization. To old Washington hands, the sight of Eleanor Roosevelt sending a new committee down the ways was indeed familiar. In more than two decades, she had served as foster mother, guiding light or honorary whatnot to a whole fleet of organizations, from the Communist-front American Youth Congress to the Daughters of the American Revolution. .
Her new organization is the National Issues Committee, tacked together by a group of assorted Washington liberals headed...
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