Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes
Why cannot we sit down together with a board of arbitration, honestly state our difficulties and try to work out a sane method of procedure?
She saw strikes as wasteful where the workers and the companies, the public and the government lost. She favored arbitration which was generally opposed by labor and management and still is today in most cases.
Eleanor Roosevelt, 1884-1962, First Lady (Franklin Delano Roosevelt), U. S. Delegate to the United Nations, Alternative to Labor Strikes, Column, My Day, September 3,1936
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Morgan, one of the biggest industrialists in the nation, had been running vicious monopolies and trusts at a time when government regulation was a new concept. Morgan’s response was to have one of Roosevelt’s assistants make a deal with one of his assistants. He was shocked when Attorney General Knox said, “We don’t want it fixed up. We want to stop it.” They did. It was a watershed in government corporate regulation.
Attila the Hun. They were discussing a structure for negotiating Attila’s grievance against Rome.
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was an American political figure, diplomat and activist. She served as the First Lady of the United States from March 4, 1933, to April 12, 1945, during her husband President Franklin D. Roosevelt's four terms in office, making her the longest-serving First Lady of the United States. Roosevelt served as United States Delegate to the United Nations General Assembly from 1945 to 1952. President Harry S. Truman later called her the "First Lady of the World" in tribute to her human rights achievements.
