Curtis Bean Dall
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About 1930, the firm that Curtis has been working for, O'Brien, Potter, Stafford decided to merge with, or sell off to Goodbody and Company. Curtis represented Goodbody on the floor of the exchange from 1930 to early 1933. About this time, Dall wanted to buy into a certain brokerage and needed $100,000 to do so, so he and Anna put a mortgage on their house. This was probably Goodbody and Company, but the article does not state that explictly. Curtis although elected Governor of the Associates of Stock Exchange Firm in 1932, was reported at the end of 1932, to be resigning his position on the New York stock exchange, but a few months later he joined the Cotton Exchange, and then the Chicago Board of Trade dealing in stocks and grain. | About 1930, the firm that Curtis has been working for, O'Brien, Potter, Stafford decided to merge with, or sell off to Goodbody and Company. Curtis represented Goodbody on the floor of the exchange from 1930 to early 1933. About this time, Dall wanted to buy into a certain brokerage and needed $100,000 to do so, so he and Anna put a mortgage on their house. This was probably Goodbody and Company, but the article does not state that explictly. Curtis although elected Governor of the Associates of Stock Exchange Firm in 1932, was reported at the end of 1932, to be resigning his position on the New York stock exchange, but a few months later he joined the Cotton Exchange, and then the Chicago Board of Trade dealing in stocks and grain. | ||
| − | + | In 1932, when the Democratic Convention met in Chicago, Curtis Dall decided to go there. He claims that he boldly went up to the room where the Pendergast delegation was pow-wowwing and told Mr. Pendergast that if he were smart, he'd get on the Roosevelt bandwagon, because Roosevelt had it all sewed up! (''F.D.R.'', pg 61-62) Dall takes a few pages to discuss a chance meeting with Huey Long and comments on how he feels Long's assassination was planned because he came to be regarded as a "real threat and political danger to some pundits in the Washington Democratic Administration" (''F.D.R.'', pg 64) Curtis then takes a few pages to relate how he met Professor Felix Frankfurter then of Harvard Law School, in Dec 1932 at a dinner at the home of Sarah Roosevelt. He and Frankfurter did not get on well, and he concludes this section by stating that Bernard Baruch and Felix Frankfurter (1882-1965) shortly afterward became "the two most powerful political operators in this country....They were without doubt the 'Gold Dust Twins'". (''F.D.R.'', pg 66-70) Frankfurter in 1938 was appointed to the Supreme Court. | |
| − | <table><tr><td>http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wjhonson/CurtisDall2.jpg<br>Curtis Bean Dall</td><td> | + | <table><tr><td>http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wjhonson/CurtisDall2.jpg<br>Curtis Bean Dall</td><td>Anna had worked sporadically at the beginning of the marriage, mostly in promoting her father's run for governor of New York, and later for U.S. President, but falling behind in mortgage payments, Anna did some more serious work to try to meet them. An article in the ''Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune'' dated 25 Feb 1933 states that Anna was, just then, the associate editor of "Babies — Just Babies". This was a magazine of "advice for mothers" for which her mother Eleanor was editor. (Cook, p. 472) The ''New York Times'' on 15 May 1933 reports that : "Mrs Curtis Dall...has signed a contract with ''Liberty Weekly'' and will become a member of the staff and a regular contributor...." Curtis and Anna were apparently at this time, splitting their time between their Tarrytown estate and "...the Roosevelt town house on East Sixty-fifth street, New York"<sup>[[#Footnotes 3|H]]</sup> Anna casting about for some further employment, took up her mother's mantle and decided to do some radio talks, for which she was paid perhaps as much as $3,000 each.<sup>[[#Footnotes 3|I]]</sup> |
Curtis and Anna had "two tow-headed children": Anna Eleanor "Sistie" Dall on 25 March 1927, and Curtis Roosevelt "Buzzie" Dall on 19 April 1930.<sup>[[#Footnotes 2|F]]</sup> Newspaper articles at this time show that Anna, "Sistie" and "Buzzie" were frequent visitors at the White House where a playground had been installed on the south lawn for them. Since Anna and her children were apparently staying days at a time in the White House with her parents, some tongues were wagging about the Dall's drifting apart.</td></tr></table> | Curtis and Anna had "two tow-headed children": Anna Eleanor "Sistie" Dall on 25 March 1927, and Curtis Roosevelt "Buzzie" Dall on 19 April 1930.<sup>[[#Footnotes 2|F]]</sup> Newspaper articles at this time show that Anna, "Sistie" and "Buzzie" were frequent visitors at the White House where a playground had been installed on the south lawn for them. Since Anna and her children were apparently staying days at a time in the White House with her parents, some tongues were wagging about the Dall's drifting apart.</td></tr></table> | ||
