National Affairs: Champagne & Flowers

Whatever may be the other distinctions of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, one is certainly a family quite as colorful as that of his late great cousin, Theodore. Last week the President's son Elliott was starting a Fort Worth radio chain, his son Franklin Jr. and Du Pont daughter-in-law were honeymooning in Europe, his son James was making an Indianapolis speech that was covered by Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt in her column "My Day," and the President's 82-year-old mother was sightseeing in Italy. None of their routine activities, however, constituted the President's major family distraction of the...

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