“Romeo” Roosevelt To Wed His “Juliet”
The engagement of President Roosevelt's third son, Air Franklin Roosevelt, jun., to Aliss Ethel Du Pont, the daughter of the President's keenest 4 ’big business" opponent, is announced. The American Press does not hesitate to describe the engagement as a “Alontagu-Capulet" romance, because of all American industrialists thero are none so bitterly opposed to President Roosevelt's policies as the Du Ponts. The young couple have often been seen together at undergraduate parties in recent months, and their engagement has been rumoured for some time. f It was considered advisable to post- s pone announcement of tho betrothal | until after the Presidential election. I Aliss Ethel Du Pont's father is Mr. | Eugene Du Pont, millionaire member of | a family of powerful industrialists and I manufacturers of explosives. The Du Ponts bitterly opposed Pres?- | dent Roosevelt's re-election, and were | the mainstays of the Ultra-Conservative 1 American Liberty League which cam- 3 paignod against tho President for 1 months. Alany people thought that the politic- | al animosity of the two families would 1, interfere with tho romance.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 36, 12 February 1937, Page 11
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