RIYAL FAMILIES

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 462, 2 July 1937, Page 6

RIYAL FAMILIES

UNITED IN MARRIAGE Dupont-Roosevelt Wedding Press Association—Copyright. New York, July 1. I The Roosevelt-Dupont marriage I which was performed in the presence ;

of President Roosevelt’s family and 342 guests, saw the union of two families which politically are aggressively opposing each other. Mr Eugene Dupont, father of the bride, who recently declared that Americans were “living under a dictatorship,” shook Mr Roosevelt’s hand heartily after the ceremony. Mrs Roosevelt, who was compelled to leave the wedding to make her regular weekly wireless broadcast, ] said, “I do not know whether to be * happy or sad.” I The guests provided a strange coni trast. They included members of the

I Cabinet, heads of the New Deal and i members of the rich Conservative class against which the Government recently redoubled its pressure, bringing many law suits regarding taxes and trade practices. On the groom’s side sat Messrs Cordell Hull, Woodring, Morgenthau and Wallace, Miss Dorothy Perkins and Mr Hopkins, and on the bride’s side sat members of leading industrial and financial families at New York, Philadelphia and Boston, against many of whom these suits are now being pressed. The President showed no signs of 1

i i tension. He seemed to have laid aside the cares of office and participated only as a happy father. Wherever he appeared he was cheered by crowds. A severe thunderstorm occurred when the newly wedded couple were leaving the church. It disrupted the arrangements for the outdoor receptio, which had to be held indoors on the Dupont estate. A thousand guests attended.