Just this April she was nominated for the seventh time for an Academy Award for her portrayal of Eleanor Roosevelt in `` Sunrise at Campobello ''.

Also in 1933 Eleanor Roosevelt honored Beaux as " the American woman who had made the greatest contribution to the culture of the world ".

* 1975 – Anna Roosevelt Halsted, American daughter of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt ( b. 1906 )

First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt was also opposed to Executive Order 9066.

Madison set the standard for the ladyship and her actions were the model for nearly every First Lady until Eleanor Roosevelt in the 1930s.

In an episode of Wings, titled " Ladies Who Lunch ", which originally aired on November 21, 1991, Faye Cochran ( Rebecca Schull ) has a streak of touching every First Lady of the United States from Eleanor Roosevelt to Barbara Bush.

The concept of the Four Freedoms became part of the personal mission undertaken by First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt regarding her inspiration behind the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights, General Assembly Resolution 217A.

The Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute honors outstanding individuals who have demonstrated a lifelong commitment to these ideals.

Spanish Earth was shown at the White House on July 8, 1937 after Ivens, Hemingway, Martha Gellhorn, had had dinner with President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt and Harry Hopkins.

Josip Broz Tito greeting Eleanor Roosevelt during her visit to the Brijuni islands, SR Croatia | Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia | Yugoslavia ( July 1953 )

* 1884 – Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady of the United States and humanitarian ( d. 1962 )

Theodore Roosevelt was distantly related by birth to the 32nd president of the United States, Franklin Delano Roosevelt ( they were fifth cousins ), and he was the uncle of Franklin D. Roosevelt's wife, Eleanor Roosevelt.

He had an older sister, Anna, and two younger siblings: his brother Elliott ( the father of future First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt ) and his sister Corinne.

Well known members of the Commission included Eleanor Roosevelt of the United States, who was the Chairperson, Jacques Maritain, René Cassin and Stéphane Hessel of France, Charles Malik of Lebanon, and P. C. Chang of the Republic of China, among others.

Eleanor Roosevelt supported the adoption of the UDHR as a declaration rather than as a treaty, because she believed that it would have the same kind of influence on global society as the United States Declaration of Independence had within the United States.

Charles Malik, Lebanese philosopher and diplomat, called it " an international document of the first order of importance ," while Eleanor Roosevelt, first chairwoman of the Commission on Human Rights ( CHR ) that drafted the Declaration, stated that it " may well become the international Magna Carta of all men everywhere.

' Much of the abuse centered on Eleanor and the Roosevelt family.

In 1941, Willkie joined with Eleanor Roosevelt to found Freedom House.

Eleanor Roosevelt, in her My Day column for October 12, 1944, eulogized Willkie as a " man of courage ... outspoken opinions on race relations were among his great contributions to the thinking of the world ... Americans tend to forget the names of the men who lost their bid for the presidency.

* Freedom House – with Eleanor Roosevelt

" Gollancz proposed a series of practical responses, centred around a rescue plan, and undertook a lecture and fundraising tour ; he was also made Vice-President of Eleanor Rathbone's National Committee for Rescue from Nazi Terror.

A brief resurgence in Tammany power in the 1950s was met with Democratic Party opposition led by Eleanor Roosevelt, Herbert Lehman, and the New York Committee for Democratic Voters.

Eleanor Roosevelt organized a counterattack with Herbert Lehman and Thomas Finletter to form the New York Committee for Democratic Voters, a group dedicated to fighting Tammany.

In 1940, the Old People ’ s Welfare Committee ( OPWC ), chaired by Eleanor Rathbone, was formed as a forum for discussion between government and voluntary organisations.

In 1943, he joined the Communist Party USA and in 1950 he was called before the House Committee on Un-American Activities ; in his testimony, he refused to disclose the names of contributors to a fund for a home for orphans of American veterans of the Spanish Civil War ( one of the contributors was Eleanor Roosevelt ), and was given a three-month prison sentence for contempt of Congress.

While living there, Anna became involved in the Washington Work and Training Opportunity Center, Americans for Democratic Action, the Capitol Area Division of the United Nations Association of the United States of America, the National Committee of Household Employment, the Wiltwyck School, and the Eleanor Roosevelt Foundation.

In 1993, Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton ( D-DC ), along with the Resident Commissioner from Puerto Rico and the delegates from Guam, the U. S. Virgin Islands, and American Samoa, received a limited vote in the Committee of the Whole, based on their right to vote in legislative committees.

On January 5, 2011, on the first day of the newly-Republican controlled House session, the House voted for a rules package again stripping non-voting delegates of their votes in the Committee of the Whole, with a 225 – 188 vote along party lines to table a motion by Eleanor Holmes Norton providing for further study of the non-voting delegate issue, thereby effectively killing it.

In 1941 he used the threat of a march on Washington and support from the NAACP, Fiorello La Guardia and Eleanor Roosevelt to force the administration to ban discrimination by defense contractors and establish the Fair Employment Practices Committee to enforce that order.

Hickok first met Eleanor Roosevelt in the summer of 1928, at the Democratic National Committee headquarters in New York City.

Two years later, Eleanor Roosevelt helped her obtain a position with the New York State Democratic Committee.

The National Committee for an Effective Congress ( NCEC ) is a political action committee founded by Eleanor Roosevelt in 1948.

Bernstein has won numerous awards and honorary degrees, including the Florina Lasker Award from the New York Civil Liberties Union ; the Human Rights Award from the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights ; the Spirit of Liberty Award from People for the American Way ; the Barnard Medal of Distinction from Barnard College ; the Curtis Benjamin Award for Distinguished Publishing from the Association of American Publishers ; and, in 1998, the United States ’ first Eleanor Roosevelt Human Rights Award, which was presented by President Bill Clinton.

He claims that several women, including Eleanor and her daughter Marie de Champagne, would sit and listen to the quarrels of lovers and act as a jury to the questions of the court that revolved around acts of romantic love.

Others, such as Polly Schoyer Brooks ( the author of a non-academic biography of Eleanor ), suggest that the court did exist, but that it was not taken very seriously and that the acts of Courtly Love were just a “ parlor game ” made up by Eleanor and Marie in order to place some order over the young courtiers living there.

One of his first acts as king was to send William Marshal to England with orders to release Eleanor from prison, who found upon their arrival that her custodians had already released her.

In The Adventures of a Nurse, little nurse Eleanor acts out stories about her childish bouts of puppy love with the men she encounters at work.

She also acts in films and on TV, most notably portraying Sara Delano Roosevelt in the TV miniseries Eleanor and Franklin ( 1976 ) ( for which she won an Emmy ) and Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years ( 1977 ).

Alexander had married Princess Margaret of England, a daughter of King Henry III of England and Eleanor of Provence, on 26 December 1251.

Several other observers found images of the comet in precovery images obtained before March 24, including Kin Endate from a photograph exposed on March 15, S. Otomo on March 17, and a team led by Eleanor Helin from images on March 19.

* In 2012, Mauricio Chernovetzky & Mark Devendorf produce a film titled Styria based on " Carmilla " starring Eleanor Tomlinson, Stephen Rea and Katie Silverman

Eleanor was widowed on 6 July 1189.

Now queen dowager, Eleanor acted as a regent while Richard went on the Third Crusade.

Eleanor or Aliénor was the oldest of three children of William X, Duke of Aquitaine, whose glittering ducal court was on the leading edge of early – 12th-century culture, and his wife, Aenor de Châtellerault, the daughter of Aimeric I, Viscount of Châtellerault, and Dangereuse, who was William IX's longtime mistress as well as Eleanor's maternal grandmother.

There is, however, an earlier Eleanor on record: Eleanor of Normandy, William the Conqueror's aunt, who lived a century earlier than Eleanor of Aquitaine.

In the spring of 1130, when Eleanor was six, her four-year-old brother William Aigret and their mother died at the castle of Talmont, on Aquitaine's Atlantic coast.

As these were the days when kidnapping an heiress was seen as a viable option for obtaining a title, William had dictated a will on the very day he died, bequeathing his domains to Eleanor and appointing King Louis VI of France as her guardian.

( left scene ) 14th-century representation of the wedding of Louis and Eleanor ; ( right scene ) Depiction of Louis leaving on Crusade

He and Eleanor were anointed and crowned King and Queen of the Franks on Christmas Day of the same year.

Rather than allow her to stay, Louis took Eleanor from Antioch against her will, and continued on to Jerusalem, with his army dwindling.

Two lords – Theobald V, Count of Blois, son of the Count of Champagne, and Geoffrey, Count of Nantes ( brother of Henry II, Duke of Normandy ) – tried to kidnap Eleanor to marry her and claim her lands on Eleanor's way to Poitiers.

Eleanor was crowned Queen of England by the Archbishop of Canterbury on 19 December 1154.

Afterwards, Eleanor proceeded to gather together her movable possessions in England and transport them on several ships in December to Argentan.

The legend on the reverse calls her Eleanor, Duchess of the Aquitanians and Countess of the Angevins.

Eleanor rode to Westminster and received the oaths of fealty from many lords and prelates on behalf of the King.

It was on the sets of Dementia 13 that he met his future wife Eleanor Jessie Neil.

In February 1963, Coppola married Eleanor Neil, whom he met on the set of Dementia 13.