MRS ROOSEVELT
"SALES PROFITEERING ” SENATOR’S ACCUSATION. WASHINGTON, May 30. Senator SchalTs accusation that Mrs Roosevelt has been "utilising her official position to profiteer on the sales ” at a furniture factory she runs in Hyde Park was vigorously denied by her to-day. During Mr Roosevelt’s illness she opened a handicraft centre, which still runs, and produces reproductions of eighteenth-century American furniture. Mr Schall alleges that she has been selling “ autographed ■ furniture to hotels at a profit of £2OO a suite.” Mrs Roosevelt replies that the factory has never shown a profit. It employs, she adds, about a dozen men at £5 a week, and is run as an experiment to find out whether a rural handicraft centre could pay. Senator Schall, when informed of this reply to his charge, said: “ If the Roosevelts cannot make a profit out of their own factory when they are charging £5 more for their articles than anybody else, the future of N.E.A. seems hopeless.”
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Evening Star, Issue 21748, 16 June 1934, Page 26
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