Voices of World War II. Audio recordings, 1942-1943.

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Voices of World War II. Audio recordings, 1942-1943.

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Audio recordings of Mary Anderson and Franklin Roosevelt, 1942-1943. 1942, February 22. Mary Anderson, director of the Women's Bureau, Department of Labor. Radio broadcast on women's contributions and value to the war effort, their prewar difficulties in obtaining jobs in industry, the types of positions women fill, and equal wages for men and women. 1943, May 2. President Roosevelt. Fireside chat on the Federal Seizure of the coal mines to prevent a strike: "There can be no one among us - no one faction - powerful enough to interrupt the forward march of our people to victory."

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Cornell University Library

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Cornell University Library

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Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born on January 30, 1882, in Hyde Park, New York. He was the son of James (lawyer, financier) and Sara (Delano) Roosevelt. He married Anna Eleanor Roosevelt on March 17, 1905, and had six children: Anna, James, Franklin, Elliott, Franklin Jr., John. He received his B.A. from Harvard in 1904 and later attended Columbia University Law School. Roosevelt was admitted to the Bar in 1907 and worked for the Carter, Ledyard, and Milburn firm in New York City from 1907 to 19...

Anderson, Mary, 1872-1964

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Anderson, Director of the Women's Bureau of the U.S. Department of Labor for 25 years, had emigrated from Sweden at 16. She worked for 18 years as a machine operator in shoe factories, was active in the Boot and Shoe Workers Union, and organized women workers for the National Women's Trade Union League before her appointment as assistant director of the Women in Industry Service in 1918. Anderson became director in 1919 and remained in that position (the Women in Industry Service became the Wome...